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AFTER 
TWENTY YEARS 

THE RECORD OF 

THE CLASS OF 1881 

PRINCETON 




ILLUSTRATED 



NEW YORK 
PRINTED FOR THE CLASS 

1901 






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CONTENTS 

PAGE 

Introductory i 

Circular of Inquiry 3 

Personal Biographies of '81 7 

'81 AT THE SeSQUICENTENNIAL 299 

The Class Meeting at the Sesqui 307 

Final Report of the Memorial Committee . . 309 

The '81 Collection of Casts 313 

Princeton's Growth 323 

Class Miscellanies : 

Organization 333 

Marriages and Children 334 

Deaths 351 

'81 in the Spanish War 354 

Class Library 356 

Occupations — Expectation and Reality . . . 359 

General Summary 362 

Appendix (in Supplement) : 

Additional Personal Biographies, if any 
The Twentieth- Year Reunion in 1 901 
Class Meeting, Class Group, etc. 

Directory ...... 367 

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ILLUSTRATIONS 

FULL-PAGE 



FACING 
PAGE 



'8 1 Decennial Class Group .... Frontispiece. 

'8 1 Senior Class Group 6 

'8 1 Freshman Football Team i8 

'8 1 Freshman Nine 30 

'81 Freshman Crew 30 

The Cane-Spree, as it was in 1877 42 

'81 Lit. Board 54 

'81 Princetonian Board 54 

Panoramic View of New Part of Campus ... 66 

Panoramic View of Blair Hall and Surroundings . 66 

Alexander Hall 78 

General View of Old and New Library . . . . 90 

The New Library ' . . . . . .102 

Front of the New Library 114 

Blair Hall Gateway 114 

Murray and Dodge Halls 126 

The New Clio Hall 138 

The New Whig Hall 138 

Dod Hall 150 

Brown Hall 150 

Little Hall 162 

The Art Museum 174 

The Biological Laboratory 186 

The Casino ..198 

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ILLUSTRATIONS 



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PAGE 



The Brokaw Memorial Building 198 

The Athletic House, University Field 210 

The Osborn Athletic Club-house 210 

The Trophy-Room in the Athletic Club-house . .222 

The Isabella McCosh Infirmary 234 

The Chemical Laboratory 234 

The Princeton Inn 252 

Grill-Room in the Princeton Inn 260 

Ex-President Cleveland's Home 270 

President Cleveland Reviewing the Sesquicentennial 

Torchlight Procession 298 

The '81 Continentals in the Torchlight Procession 304 

The Arch of Trajan, Beneventum 310 

Details from the Arch of Trajan 316 

Details from the Arch of Trajan 320 

Outline Map of the University Campus .... 330 

IN TEXT 

PAGE 

1 1 1 Class Portraits 9-296 

Craven's Church in Mattituck 55 

Dodd's Hospital in Cesarea 75 

Dunn's Church in Freeport 85 

Harlan's Church in Rochester 119 

Symmes's Church in Tennent 253 

The Townsend Pin-Puller 260 

Van Alen's Church in Blackwood 263 

The '81 Class Dinner at the Sesquicentennial . . 301 

Dennis 355 

" A-a-Apples, Sir ? " 364 

End-Piece, University Field 378 

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AFTER 
TWENTY YEARS 



AFTER TWENTY YEARS 



INTRODUCTORY 

*' Here's to Eighty-one, 

For she's always up to fun, — 
Drink her down, drink her down, drink her down, down, down! " 

The new century is in luck. Its very first year is 
marked by a great and memorable event, — the 
twentieth anniversary of the Class of 1881. The 
following pages tell the tale of the score of years 
since the class's graduation. 

The London Academy has remarked that memoirs 
are of three kinds : 

Biographies, 

Autobiographies, and 

Ought-not-to-biographies. 
The chronicles herein are, of course, of the first two 
kinds only. Most of them are autobiographies. 
Hence at times they may appear to dwell unduly on 
the ego, as distinguished from the non-ego. This, 
however, is only in seeming. The class is not in 
reality vainglorious. It is, in fact, a singularly re- 
tiring and reticent class, loath to speak of self, — as 

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AFTER TWENTY YEARS 

the undersigned committee can explicitly testify ; 
and many or most of those who may seem in these 
pages to shout with such brazen tongues have, in 
fact, murmured their responses in low whispers, un- 
der duress, and after having exhausted all the known 
methods of dilatory Chinese diplomacy. 

Still, we have finally succeeded in squeezing the 
truth out of most of them, and in learning more or 
less of it about the rest ; and it is our pride to point 
out an ambition achieved, — viz., that this volume 
contains some account, or at least mention, of every 
man who has at any time been connected, whether 
briefly or long, with the Class of 1881. 

Since the publication of our Decennial Record, 
Princeton has taken a long stride forward in becom- 
ing a University ; and its marvellous advance within 
the decade, along all lines, is a cause of pride to 
every alumnus. The name of Princeton is growing 
yearly in honor ; and to have been a member of 
one of its classes is reason for increasing satisfaction 
as that name mounts steadily higher. 

Our class spirit is as strong and warm as ever. It 
has, in fact, grown stronger and warmer. The men 
remember one another's good traits and forget the 
failings. It is to be hoped that the class will be- 
come a more and more closely knit organization as 
the years pass on ; and that its recurring five or 
ten-year anniversaries will be marked by successive 
reunions in the classic shades of Old Nassau. 

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CIRCULAR OF INQUIRY 

The following is a copy of the circular sent to the 
individual members of the class : 

CLASS OF 1881. 

Dear Classmates : 

June, 1 90 1, as you are doubtless aware, marks the 
twentieth anniversary of our college graduation — an occa- 
sion which it is hoped to make memorable by a special in- 
terest on the part of the class and a large attendance at the 
reunion to be held in Princeton. We are to have a new 
Class Record, and we want not only to have it as complete 
as possible, but to have it ready sharp on time for the re- 
union itself. 

Will you please write, in reply to this communication, 
giving an account of your life and fortunes since leaving 
college, and particularly within the last ten years ? Put it 
in about the form in which you would like to have it ap- 
pear in the Record, bearing in mind that the fuller you 
make it, the better and more interesting the Record will be. 
Remember that each of the other fellows will read of your 
doings with the same interest with which you read of his ; 
so please do not assume that your particular history is of 
no special importance. It is of special importance, in this 
connection, to every other man in the class. 

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AFTER TWENTY YEARS 

Attention is drawn to the following points : 

1. Your residence and business address in full. 

2. Your occupation, business or profession, and an ac- 
count of whatever you have been doing since leaving col- 
lege. 

3. Are you single, married or engaged ? If married, 
give the date and place of ceremony and the maiden name 
of your wife. If you have had any children, give their 
names and dates of birth, indicating which, if any, have 
died. 

4. Have you held any public or political offices, positions 
of honor or trust, business directorships, military rank, etc. ; 
written books or articles, made an invention or discovery, 
obtained a degree, or done any other noteworthy thing 
which should be chronicled in the Record ? 

5. What are your politics and your religious affiliations, 
and to what clubs or societies do you belong, — social, po- 
litical, patriotic, etc. ? 

6. Do you expect to attend the Class Reunion at Prince- 
ton this June ? 

7. What do you know about other '81 men? Special 
attention is drawn to this question. Whatever facts or 
side-lights you can give regarding those whom you know of, 
or have met or heard about, may prove to be of great value 
in the preparation of the Record. Set down the names of 
the various '81 men with whom you have been in touch, 
and let us have an item about each of them. 

It will be deemed a great favor to your committee if you 
will not put this circular aside for a more convenient season, 
but will reply by return mail, just as with any other busi- 
ness matter. It is of the greatest importance to get the 

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material in hand promptly, as you can of course easily un- 
derstand. Since it cannot even be put in shape for the 
printer until the last man is heard from, delay in individual 
replies will hold up the whole book. 

Edwin A. Dix, Chairman. 
Alex. M. Hudnut, 
J. Leverett Moore, 
Thomas D. Warren, 
Address : Committee on Class Record. 

Edwin A. Dix, 
123 Harrison Street, 
, East Orange, New Jersey. 



PERSONAL 

BIOGRAPHIES 

OF '8 1 




FRANK P. ALLEN 

*' And lo ! Ben Adhem's name led all the rest." 

Upon graduation I practised civil engineering 
for a short time, then came to Dakota in search 
of health, and decided to remain there permanently. 
I located at Lisbon, fifty-six miles southeast of 
Fargo, and started the Ransom County Bank, but 
soon disposed of my interest in same ; studied law, 
and in 1887 was admitted to practice in Territorial 
and United States Courts. Served one term as Pro- 
bate Judge of my county , formed partnership for 
practice of law under firm name of Rourke & Allen ; 

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AFTER TWENTY YEARS 

was elected County Judge in the fall of 1893 and 
served until January, 1898 — two terms. Returned 
again to practice of law, this time alone, and am also 
interested in negotiating first-mortgage farm loans, 
under the firm name of Allen & Jones. 

On September i, 1886, I was married to Miss 
Minnie L. Taft, at her home in Ballston Spa, 
Saratoga County, N. Y., and we are now the proud 
parents of three children, — Grace, born August 3, 
1887; Katherine, born September 26, 1892, and 
Frank Taft, born October 27, 1894. 

I hardly feel that 1 have done any noteworthy 
thing which should be chronicled in the Record. 
I was for five years one of the Board of Managers 
of the State Normal Schools, am a Republican in 
politics, in which I have always taken considerable 
interest, and had the pleasure of seeing my county 
enrolled on the right side in the campaign of 1896 
under my guidance as Chairman of the Central 
Committee. [Frank, though he modestly omits 
the fact, has also filled the offices of City Clerk, 
Alderman, County Justice of the Peace, Commis- 
sioner of Insanity, and County Surveyor, — giving 
Pooh Bah cards and spades. — Eds.] 

I am a member of the Baptist Church, have 
repeatedly been Moderator of the North Dakota 
Baptist Association and Chairman of the Executive 
Committee, and for a number of years have had 
the pleasure of presiding over the largest Sunday- 

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PERSONAL BIOGRAPHIES OF '81 

school in this part of the State, and am now filling 
my second term as President of the County Sun- 
day-school Convention. 

In 1892 I was appointed Second Lieutenant in 
Battery A of the North Dakota National Guard, 
and in 1897 was elected Captain of that organiza- 
tion, but resigned in the fall of 1898, when I found 
that no artillery from this State would be called 
into the United States Volunteer Service ; and on 
December 14, 1898, was by the Governor appointed 
State Quarter-master and Disbursing Agent for the 
Militia of the State, which office I still hold. 

I hardly think that I will be able to attend the 
Class Reunion, but if any '81 man ever drifts out 
into this part of the world he will always find a 
hearty welcome at my home, or my office. First 
National Bank Building, Lisbon, No. Dak. 

McCune writes: "In '96 I had a delightful 
visit with Judge Frank P. Allen, of Lisbon, No. 
Dak. He was then doing well in his business, and 
certainly made a deep impression on me as a splen- 
did character, a man whom the class should be 
proud to have upon its roll." 



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AFTER TWENTY YEARS 
JAMES R. ARCHER 

" Born to the spacious empire of the Nine." — Dryden. 

After some search, the committee has got on to 
Archer's curves. Nothing had been heard from him 
for seventeen years. 

On leaving college he went into mining. He was 
for some time in Colorado, and later in Montezuma, 
Cal He then became connected with a company 
organized for the purpose of gold-mining in Vir- 
ginia. He was appointed superintendent, and main- 
tained his connection with the company for a num- 
ber of years. There is evidently much gold to be 
found in Virginia, for Archer doesn't have to work 
any more. He reports from Parker, Va., as fol- 
lows : 

" My address is the St. James Hotel, Washing- 
ton, D. C. I have been engaged in mining. West 
and East, until ten years ago, when I retired from 
active work. 1 am single and not engaged. I have 
held no political position ; my business has been of 
an entirely private nature. 

" I am a straight-out Republican. Belong to no 
societies or clubs. I have been unfortunate enough 
not to have been thrown with any of our class since 
graduation. It is my present intention to attend 
the Class Reunion in June." 



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A. C. ARMSTRONG 

«' This same philosophy is a good horse in the stable, but an arrant 
jade on a journey." 

1881-82, Fellow in Mental Science, Princeton 
College; 1882-B5, Student in Princeton Theologi- 
cal Seminary; 1885-86, Student at the University 
of Berhn, Germany; 1886-87, Associate Professor 
of Ecclesiastical History, Princeton Theological 
Seminary; 1887-88, Assistant Editor of the New 
Princeton Review and Instructor in History, Prince- 
ton College; from 1888, Professor of Philosophy in 
Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn. (1899- 

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AFTER TWENTY YEARS 

1900 absent on " Sabbatical " leave, the winter being 
spent at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, 
England, and the summer holidays in France). 

Married in Princeton, September 6, 1888, Miss 
Mabel Lester Murray, daughter of the late Rev. 
Dr. James O. Murray, Professor of English Litera- 
ture in Princeton College and Dean of the Faculty. 
Children : Andrew Campbell Armstrong 3d, born 
June 5, 1890, died April 10, 1891; James Syng 
Armstrong, born July 25, 1894; Sinclair Wallace 
Armstrong, born March 31, 1897. 

In June, 1884, granted degree of A.M. at Prince- 
ton ; in June, 1889, elected member of the Phi 
Beta Kappa Fraternity, Wesleyan Chapter ; in 
1894 admitted to the degree of M.A. in Wesleyan 
University ad eundem ; in 1896 granted the degree 
of Ph.D. honoris causa by Princeton College. Have 
contributed to the Psychological Review, Philosoph- 
ical Review, Zeitschrift fiir Philosophic und philoso- 
phische Kritik, Educational Review, New World, 
Methodist Review, New Tork Independent, etc. 
Have presented papers before the American Psy- 
chological Association (of which I have been a mem- 
ber since 1893), the Philosophical Society of Yale 
University, the Philosophical Club of Oxford, Eng- 
land, and the Moral Science Club of Cambridge 
University, England. Published in 1893 a " His- 
tory of Modern Philosophy," being a translation 
(with notes and additions) of Falclcenberg's " Grund- 

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PERSONAL BIOGRAPHIES OF '81 

riss der Geschichte der Philosophie," and contrib- 
uted notes on English and American philosophy to 
the later editions of the German work ; have also 
written a number of titles for the new " Dictionary 
. of Psychology and Philosophy." 

In politics an original " Mugwump," developed 
into a consistent Democrat, later into a consistent 
Republican, but in each case heretical in some of the 
main tenets of the party creed. In religion, till 
1886, member of the Fourteenth Street Presbyterian 
Church, New York City; 1 886-1 896, member of 
the New York Presbytery; since 1896, member of 
the North Congregational Church, Middletown, 
Conn., and of the Middlesex Association of Con- 
gregational Ministers. 

I very much hope to attend the Class Reunion 
in June at Princeton. 



WILLIAM SINCLAIR BACOT 

*' A man who could make so vile a pun would not scruple to pick 
a pocket." 

In the month of July, 1890, I was appointed En- 
gineer of County Roads in Richmond County, New 
York. I had previously received the honorary de- 
gree of Civil Engineer from Princeton College, for 
which honor I am especially indebted to Professor 
Charles McMillan, of the School of Science. I 

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AFTER TWENTY YEARS 

spent three years of very active service in Richmond 
County, during which time I laid out some fifty 
miles of improved highways, of which I had con- 




structed about thirty miles. Politics accomplished 
my removal from that field in the spring of 1893. 

Shortly afterward, I was sent by representatives 
of the New York State League for Good Roads, 
General Roy Stone being the active member of 
that association, to construct the road exhibit at the 
World's Fair at Chicago. During the same season 
I constructed a large reservoir at Greenwich, Conn., 
for the water-works in that place. This business 

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PERSONAL BIOGRAPHIES OF '81 

kept me occupied until the month of September, and 
was followed by my first serious illness, which put 
me out of commission until winter set in. 

In May, 1894, I was engaged to lay out the im- 
provement of the street system of Burlington, Vt. 
This work kept me busy until the following Octo- 
ber. I left Burlington in possession of a general 
plan of street improvements and some three miles 
of roads and streets constructed. 

The year 1895 found me at Greenwich, Conn., 
constructing the additional water-supply for that 
place and for its neighbor. Port Chester, N. Y. At 
the same time I introduced a general metre system 
in the water-works of both of these villages. 

In the year 1896 I had active charge of the busi- 
ness of the New Jersey Trap Rock Company, whose 
output consisted of broken stone for road purposes. 

The next season, 1897, I spent at Ashtabula, O., 
reconstructing the water-works of that town. The 
laying of a twenty-four-inch intake on the bottom of 
Lake Erie, for a distance of one-half mile from the 
shore, was the most important feature of that work. 
I did not leave there until the following December. 

In May, 1898, surveys for the proposed new 
water-supply of Utica, N. Y., were instituted under 
my direction. Since that time I have been identi- 
fied closely with that city, being now a resident of 
the town, and in charge of the business of the Con- 
solidated Water Company, which corporation ab- 

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AFTER TWENTY YEARS 

sorbed both the old and new companies in Novem- 
ber, 1899. While this project has been working itself 
out, I have turned my hand to other enterprises, 
but my time is almost wholly given to local affairs. 

My private history during this decade would be 
dry reading for my classmates. In politics I am 
nominally Republican, practically independent ; vote 
as I please. In religion I am and always have been 
Episcopalian. I am still unmarried. I have just as 
much enthusiasm as I had twenty years ago, some- 
what tempered by time and experience. There are a 
good many things I would like to do over again, but it 
may be just as well that I shall not have the chance. 

CLIFTON RODES BARRET 

After I left college, I entered the Citizens' Na- 
tional Bank here in Louisville, Ky., of which my 
father was president. I worked there for several 
years, and in 1887 went into brokerage and private 
banking for myself. In 1890 I failed, and after set- 
tling up my business, I spent about four years in 
travel, — principally in Europe. In 1897 ^ entered 
the auditor's office of the Louisville & Nashville 
Railroad, where I am now. 

In politics I am and have been a Republican on 
national issues ; on local issues I have been for what 
I believed to be the best man. I am a member of 
the Fourth Avenue Presbyterian Church here. 

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PERSONAL BIOGRAPHIES OF '81 

I have never been married, and am not likely, from 
present prospects, soon to be. 

I can hardly say yet whether I will be on for the 
reunion, but will if I can. 




ELISTON RUSH BATEMAN 

Bateman died at his home in Cedarville, N. J., 
of consumption, on April 30, 1887. 

He left college at the end of Sophomore year, 
and took the medical course at the University of 
Pennsylvania, where he received the degree of M.D., 
his name being on the roll of honor. In 1882 he 

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AFTER TWENTY YEARS 

commenced practice as a physician in Cedarville, 
N. J., where both of his grandfathers and also his 
father had practised before him, and where he was 
well known from boyhood. He was very success- 
ful and was greatly esteemed. 

He was married in Cedarville, November i, 1882, 
to Mary Laurence. Two children were born to 
them, Elsie Laurence Bateman, born August 26, 
1883, died July 28, 1884; and Arthur Norton Bate- 
man, born April 9, 1885, died August 12, 1885. 

He was a member of the Presbyterian Church, 
and in politics was a Republican. 

Bateman fought hard against his malady. He 
did not give up his practice until about a month 
before the end came, being determined until the last 
to overcome his illness and live. He was greatly 
mourned by all who knew him. His widow still 
resides in Cedarville. 



FRANK L. BEDELL 

Bedell died at Saranac Lake, N. Y., on August 
27, 1895, of cancer of the liver. 

On leaving college, he studied law, preparatory to 
admission to the New Jersey Bar; but in 1884, de- 
ciding on a business life, he accepted the position of 
private secretary to the junior partner of an import- 
ing house in New York. In the following year he 
cast in his fortunes with the Prudential Insurance 

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PERSONAL BIOGRAPHIES OF '81 

Company, of Newark, N. J., becoming Assistant Act- 
uary, and subsequently Manager of the Claim Depart- 
ment, a position of importance and responsibility. 




He was married to Miss Harriet Matilda Webb, 
January 21, 1886, at Newark. They had two chil- 
dren, Arthur Douglas Bedell, born December 18, 
1886, and Alexina Bedell, born November 26, 1891, 
both of whom are living. 

His health began to fail in 1895, ^^^ °^ i^^Y ^^^ °^ 
that year he left for the Adirondacks, where he died. 

Bedell was at the time of his death a member of 
the Newark Board of Education, president of the 



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AFTER TWENTY YEARS 

Garfield Club, and active in Republican circles. He 
was a member of St. Stephen's Episcopal Church. 
He wrote more or less for the local papers, and con- 
tributed to various magazines ; and had undertaken 
a translation of Virgil's " ^neid " in poetical form 
for children, which he left unfinished. 

His widow, now Mrs. Henry Dickson, survives 
him, and his son Arthur expects to enter Princeton 
in three or four years. 

At the Reunion of the class at the Sesquicenten- 
nial, a committee was appointed, which prepared the 
following resolutions : 

The members of the Class of 1881, Princeton College, 
assembled in Princeton on October 21, 1896, to celebrate 
the fifteenth anniversary of their graduation, have learned 
with sadness and regret of the death of their late class- 
mate, Frank L. Bedell. His fidelity and devotion to his 
duties had won their regard and esteem, and gained for him 
marked success and a commanding position in important 
business relations, and his promising career had been watched 
by his classmates with interest and gratification. 

Therefore it is resolved, that we hereby express to his 
family our high appreciation of his fellowship and friend- 
ship, and our sense of personal loss bv his untimely death ; 
and that we extend to his family oar deepest sympathy in 
their affliction. 

And it is further resolved, that these resolutions be en- 
tered upon the class records, and that the secretary be directed 
to send a copy to the family of our deceased classmate. 
Class of 1881 of Princeton College, by 

John O. H. Pitney, 
Paul van Dyke, 
James L. Coyle, Committee. 
Princeton, N. J., October 21^ i8g6. 

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BENJ. B. BLYDENBURGH 

" And so I penned 
It down, until at last it came to be. 
For length and breadth, the bigness which you see." 

Since the Decennial I have continued at the law 
at 1 1 1 Broadway, New York City. I am still un- 
married ; and regret that 1 have not " done any 
noteworthy thing which should be chronicled in the 
Record"; but I take great pleasure in looking for- 
ward to reading of the doings of those whose years 
have been more varied and eventful. 



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AFTER TWENTY YEARS 

W. I. BOYER 

Boyer left Princeton in the middle of Sophomore 
year, — February, 1879. He went to his home in 
Belvidere, N. J., and subsequently took up the 
study of law. He no longer lives in Belvidere, how- 
ever, and the committee has been unable to learn 
anything recent about him. 

THOMAS B. BRADFORD 

Disappeared from his home in Wilmington, Del., 
on June 30, 1893, and ^^^ never been heard of since. 
He is supposed to be dead. 

Bradford was graduated from the Medical De- 
partment of the University of Pennsylvania in 1884, 
spent a year and a half as resident physician in the 
Episcopal Hospital of Philadelphia, and took a 
year's special course in surgery and gynaecology in 
the University of Pennsylvania Hospital. He 
afterward became surgeon of the Delaware Hospital, 
in Wilmington. He was married in that city, on 
December 18, 1888, to Miss Helen Rogers, and 
left one child, Thomas Budd Bradford, Jr., born 
February 4, 1890. 

Mrs. Bradford, his widow, writes : " He stood 
very high as a surgeon. He had high reports from 
ail the noted Philadelphia doctors, who did not want 
him to leave Philadelphia. He had a happy home 

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PERSONAL BIOGRAPHIES OF '81 

life, and was very fond of his family. On June 30, 
1893, ^^ the morning, he went out to see some 
cases, and never returned, and never was heard from 




since. Dr. Bradford was a man of very good prin- 
ciples ; he never drank, and had no bad habits 
whatever." 

The sympathy of every one of his college asso- 
ciates who reads this will go out toward Bradford's 
widow in her affliction. Few bereavements could 
come in more strange and terrible form ; and it is a 
tragic thought, for '81, that this mystery of their 
dead classmate will probably never be dispelled. 

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AFTER TWENTY YEARS 

ROBERT CREIGHTON BRADISH 

Bradish came from Oxford to Princeton, entering 
with the class, and remaining until April, 1878. On 
leaving college, he went to Carlisle, Pa., where he 
took up farming for a time. He afterward became 
a travelling salesman, and for sixteen years has trav- 
elled extensively on business, in the United States, 
the United Kingdom of Great Britain, and Aus- 
tralasia. During 1889 he was a clerk in the 
money-order department of the United States Post- 
office, at San Francisco. 

He was married in September, 1879, at Carlisle, 
to Mary K. Donovan ; being the first man con- 
nected with the class to be married. They have 
one child, Joseph S. E. Bradish, born June 25, 1880. 

In politics he is Republican; in religion. Episco- 
palian. He is a member of the Masonic order. 

Bradish is at present ill in New York, but his 
regular address is in Harrisburg, Pa., — care of 
The Commonwealth Trust Company. 

POWELL M. BRADLEY 

Left Princeton, on a famous occasion, in company 
with certain other '81 men, in February of Fresh- 
man year. He afterward entered the University of 
Virginia. His home was in Washington, but he 
does not live there now, and we have not succeeded 

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PERSONAL BIOGRAPHIES OF '81 

in tracing him. Fowler thinks that he studied 
medicine, either there or in New York ; and that 
he travelled a great deal abroad at one time. 



J. S. BRANDT 

I left Princeton at the close of my Freshman 
year, and the following fall I went to Philadelphia 
to study dentistry at the Philadelphia Dental Col- 
lege, from which I graduated in March, 1880. 
After graduating, I located in Susquehanna, Pa., and 
practised there four years. My father wishing me 
to go into business at my present address, Brandt, 
Pa., I left the practice of my profession in February, 
1884, and since that time have been in the mercan- 
tile business. I have recently sold that out, and 
after taking a post-graduate course in the Dental 
College, beginning March ist, I shall again practise 
dentistry in Susquehanna. 

I was married Sept. 8, 1881, to Carrie C. Porter, 
of Philadelphia, and we have five children : May 
Brandt, born Aug. 5, 1882; Josie, born May 5, 
1884; Florence, born June 12, 1887; Henry, born 
Aug. 22, 1890, and Walter, born Aug. 30, 1899. 

While in the mercantile business here, I have 
held the office of postmaster for the last eight years. 
I am a Director of the City National Bank, of Sus- 
quehanna, Pa. I am a Republican in politics, and a 
member, trustee, and elder of the Harmony Presby- 

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AFTER TWENTY YEARS 

terian Church of this place. Belong to the Mason- 
ic order, having been through the Blue Lodge and 
Chapter. 1 do not expect to attend the Class Re- 
union at Princeton. As to other members of the 
class, I know nothing at present about any of them. 




HENRY L. BRANT 

My career since we graduated, — it seems scarcely 
possible that it has been twenty years, — has not been 
anything remarkable, and will, I fear, possess little 
of interest to my classmates, 

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PERSONAL BIOGRAPHIES OF '81 

After graduating from Columbia Law School, and 
being admitted to the New York Bar, in 1884, and 
serving a three years' clerkship in the Law Depart- 
ment of the New York Tribune, I opened an 
office of my own in the Potter Building, 38 Park 
Row, New York. Here I have ever since conducted 
an active law practice, principally litigated business, 
in which I have met with an encouraging degree of 
success, though not yet having attained to either great 
fame or fortune. I have associated with me in my 
office F. H. Wadsworth, of Princeton, '93, and 
Harry H. Pittinger, of Yale, '00. 

I was married November 26, 1885, to Miss Cor- 
nelia L. Chase, of Newark, N. J. The family, to 
date, has been increased by three : Clifford A., born 
December 11, 1887; Hazel C, June 23, 1890; 
and Helen M., March 27, 1892; all living and 
giving joy and doing honor to their parents, — the 
boy preparing, of course, for Princeton. 

I am a good Republican in politics ; and a good 
Universalist in religion, having been superintendent 
for several years of the Sunday-school of the First 
Universalist Church of Brooklyn, and an active 
member of the Universalist Club of New York. I 
am also a member of numerous social and political 
organizations. 

Our winter residence is 165 Madison Street, 
Brooklyn ; and our summer home is at Oak Island 
Beach, Long Island. 

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AFTER TWENTY YEARS 

It is my strong desire and my present intention 
to improve the opportunity of meeting the boys» 
and renewing my youth once more, under the classic 
shades of dear old Princeton next June. 




DAVID C. BRECKINRIDGE 



" Methought I heard a voice cry, 'Sleep no more 



I ' " 



Sleepy has failed to awake, despite the commit- 
tee's loud and frequent knockings. It is a pity, for 
he would have had much of interest to tell us. 

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PERSONAL BIOGRAPHIES OF '81 

After college days, he went home to St. Louis, 
and there began the study of law. He was duly 
admitted to the Bar, made a summer trip to Europe 
in '85, and for three years practised in St. Louis 
with his father, one of the most noted jurists of 
the State. In 1887 and 1888, he again went 
abroad with Vanderburgh, and these are the chap- 
ters which, it was hoped, would be more fully told 
by his own pen. What the committee has frag- 
mentarily heard, about the quality of the vermilion 
used, the organizing of bull-fights in Spain, and 
other lurid tales of novelty and adventure, has only 
whetted its appetite for fuller and more piquant in- 
formation. 

In 1889 Breckinridge settled in New York, and 
went into the business of railway supplies and equip- 
ment and the construction of railways, both steam 
and street, horse and electric. He formed the firm 
of Martin & Breckinridge, and on the death of his 
partner, a year or so later, succeeded to the busi- 
ness, and has since carried it on. An important 
department of the business, we learn, is buying and 
selling trolley-cars that have been in use. He is 
constructing a large storehouse and repair-shop at 
a new place in Union County, N. J., near Elizabeth. 

Later. — Breckinridge has opened his eyes at the 
last minute, and is now evidently wide awake, as 
shown in the appended communication. But we are 

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AFTER TWENTY YEARS 

not disposed to put work on the above biography 
for nothing, so shall let it stand. Moreover, it is 
fuller in some respects than his own account is. We 
note with acute regret that no light is shed below on 
those vermilion wanderjahre : 

My " life and fortunes " since leaving dear old 
Princeton can be briefly and yet fully told ; and oh i 
how often have I been really homesick for old Nas- 
sau, the literary, classic atmosphere we all loved so 
well, and (incidentally) the little, refreshing, inno- 
cent " pastimes " which we could ill spare from our 
studies yet demanded for rest and recreation. 

Would that 1 were a novelist, that I might plead 
force of habit and add a tinge of interest to my re- 
port by administering a little dash of color without 
wounding of conscience. But the spirit and love of 
truth must prevail ; thus will the coveted commen- 
dation of my dear classmates be assured, even if the 
interest of my deeds is lacking. The love of truth 
constantly exhibited by all the members of 1881 
without exception, a subject of almost daily com- 
ment, was indeed beautiful. They really loved it 
so much that they appeared to want to keep it, and, 
it is said, often did. " Give it away ? " Never ! ex- 
cept under irresistible pressure, and then only 
through sense of duty as appeared from the exigen- 
cies of the particular case. And how frequently has 
this persistent, often stubborn, holding on caused 

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intense personal embarrassment and inconvenience, 
even to the point of grave danger of " leaving me 
college " ! Only the individual members of our 
class will ever know, — unless it be old Dennis and a 
few others for whom he acted as personal represent- 
ative. 

Pardon this digression, and let us come to facts 
and answers to inquiries : 

My residence address is the Gilsey House, New 
York City, being a tenancy at will, to continue only 
so long as the landlord and I, arguing from the same 
identical premises, arrive at the same conclusions. 
Up to the present writing he seems logical in his 
reasoning, and it would pain me to see him retro- 
grade in this regard. 

My business address is Lord's Court Building, 
40 Exchange Place, New York City. Permit me 
to add that I do not occupy the entire building, as 
the above broad statement might lead one to sup- 
pose, but only Rooms 610 and 611. The same rule 
as to tenancy applies to my offices as to the hotel. 

Upon leaving college I studied law at the St. 
Louis Law School, graduating in 1883. I practised 
law in St. Louis about three years, and was then in- 
terrupted by a European trip extending over four 
years. Returning in 1889, I located in New York 
City and engaged in the railway supply business, to 
which I was led by some connections and affiliations 
made while abroad. I have continued in this occu- 

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AFTER TWENTY YEARS 

pation ever since, — with occasional other business 
divertisements and pastimes, some proving more 
lucrative than others ; in the aggregate managing to 
run along smoothly, failing to reach any great heights 
of success (except in my mind and hopes), and avoid- 
ing any serious pitfalls. For all of which I am 
duly thankful. My achievements embrace all that 
man is entitled to, which some wise philosopher, 
either through necessity or wisdom, itemizes as 
" three meals a day and a bed." I have been blessed 
with abundant health and my full portion of happi- 
ness, and have managed to add to the above enu- 
merated fleshly needs a " quick lunch," and an oc- 
casional late supper if it promised to be good, and 
provided the invitation was received and sincere. 

I am, I believe, one of the very few men of our 
class still unmarried. Nor am I engaged. You 
know the Irishman who stated, in replying to the 
same rather leading question, that he was single but 
came very near being married, in that he asked a 
certain lady to be his wife, and she asked to be ex- 
cused. " And like a fool," he says, " I excused 
her." 

I have held no office whatever ; have held no 
positions of high rank or honor, and have written 
no books or articles. 

The political parties are in such a chaotic state 
that I really do not know what I am. I started a 
Republican, but since the recent Chicago election, 

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PERSONAL BIOGRAPHIES OF '81 

and the fact that our honored and universally es- 
teemed ex-President, Grover Cleveland, has again 
given evidence of his sound judgment in selecting 
Princeton as his home — a mutual compliment — and 
further, since Mr. Cleveland has honored Sigma Chi 
Fraternity with his membership, I think I had best, 
at least for a time, be a Gold Democrat, whatever 
that may be. But it is really immaterial to me or 
to the nation. 

My religious affiliations — true to old Nassau, its 
cherished environments, influences, and pastimes — 
are the same as they have always been, Presbyterian. 

I fully expect and sincerely hope to be at our Re- 
union in June, and look forward to it and the meeting 
with all the fellows with the keenest pleasure. 

STUART BROWN 

"Hannibal was a very pretty fellow in those days." 

I live within a block of the spot where I was 
born, and its post-office address is 717 South Fourth 
Street, Springfield, 111. My business address is 309 
South Sixth Street. I began practising law in the 
fall of 1883, with a knowledge that it was confine- 
ment for life at hard labor. The result has been 
fully up to my expectations. I was married in 1886, 
and have three children, a boy of thirteen, a girl of 
eight and one of two years. I take the greatest 
pleasure when I look at them in believing that they 

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AFTER TWENTY YEARS 

take after their mother and are not half as mean as 
I was at all ages. 

I have never had the temerity to run for alder- 




man or dog-catcher, and the onlv public office in 
civil life I have tried to fill is that ot Master in 
Chancery of the Circuit Court of the United States 
for the Southern District of Illinois. To write out 
that title takes many muscles and much ink. It is 
a lung-destroyer if you say it fast and all at once. 
When lawyers from the country " deestricts " ad- 
dress me as " Your Honor," or, in the language of 
Western comradeship, ask their clients to " shake 

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PERSONAL BIOGRAPHIES OF '81 

hands with Judge Brown," I try to realize its im- 
portance ; but when I listen to their remarks in 
taking exceptions before the Court, I fully realize 
myself. 

One other public office have I held. During the 
bloody war with Spain, I was Captain and Adjutant 
of the Fifth Illinois Infantry. We spent three 
months at Camp Thomas, in Georgia, in a deadly 
struggle with red tape. With hearts beating high, 
and the usual accompaniments of dirt and insects, 
we started for Cuba, but were stopped in our mad 
career. After another period of stagnation, we em- 
barked for Puerto Rico, and when Peace " caught 
us out on the fly," we sadly disembarked. In short, 
we rode a nightmare and were thrown into a ditch, 
and the only thing we had to be pleased with was 
that we came out alive. 

I have been a Gold Democrat in politics and a 
Presbyterian mugwump in religion, but I hope to be 
with you at the Reunion, and that ought to cover a 
multitude of sins. And if the boys will just forget 
for a little while my peccadilloes, and receive me 
with as open a heart as I have for all of them, I will 
drink of the fountain of life and be good for another 
twenty years. 

Cauldwell writes of Stuart that he has met him in 
a business way several times. He is as handsome 
as ever. He " gave very good attention to the 

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AFTER TWENTY YEARS 

business in hand, and made on all concerned a very 
favorable impression." 

'8 I Freshman tutors please copy. 




ADAM TODD BRUCE 

Died of fever at Ismailia, Egypt, February 9, 
1887, in the twenty-eighth year of his age. 

We take the following from the Decennial Record : 
The vear after graduation, Bruce took a position 
in the Lawrenceville School, and part of his instruc- 
tion being in Natural History, his attention was 
turned to Biology. He was a member of the West- 

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PERSONAL BIOGRAPHIES OF '81 

ern Expedition of '82, and in the fall returned to 
Princeton as Demonstrator in Comparative Anat- 
omy. The next year he was elected a Fellow of 
the Johns Hopkins University, and Fellow by 
Courtesy in 1885. He took his degree as Doctor 
of Philosophy in June, 1886, and during the follow- 
ing summer was appointed Instructor in Osteology 
and Mammalian Anatomy in the University. 

He entered on his work with great energy and 
enthusiasm, but this fresh responsibility, added to 
the labors of original research, overtaxed his strength, 
and toward the close of November, 1886, he was 
obliged to give up all work for a time, and started 
with his family on an extended tour for rest and re- 
cuperation. After remaining for some time in Lon- 
don, he decided upon a voyage to Egypt, through 
the Strait, and made the trip by himself, joining his 
family, who had come via Europe, at Alexandria, 
whence they all went to Cairo and to Ismailia. At 
the latter place he was attacked by fever, — and the 
end came. 

A largely attended meeting of Bruce's professors, 
friends and pupils was later held at Johns Hopkins 
University. Addresses were made and resolutions 
of earnest regret adopted. It was afterward sug- 
gested that the publication of his thesis on " The 
Germ- Layers of Insects and Arachnids" would be 
the best testimonial to the value of his investiga- 
tions. Accordingly, through the kindness of friends 

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AFTER TWENTY YEARS 

in Johns Hopkins, Princeton and elsewhere, the 
volume appeared, in February, 1888. 

In May, 1887, the Trustees of the University ac- 
cepted from the hands of Bruce's mother the sum 
of 1 1 0,000, to be used in founding, as a memorial, 
" The Adam T. Bruce Fellowship in Biology." 




CHARLES HENRY BUTLER 

I reside at No. 23 Park Avenue, Yonkers, West- 
chester County, N. Y., in which city, with a few 
breaks, I have resided since I left college. [Butler 
does not state whether they were bad breaks or not.J 

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PERSONAL BIOGRAPHIES OF '81 

Since leaving college 1 have studied and practised 
law continuously, having been admitted to practice 
at the Bar of the State of New York in September, 
1 88a. For some years I was associated with George 
C. Holt in the firm of Holt & Butler ; afterward 
with J. Edwards WyckofF (Princeton, '86) in the 
firm of Butler & WyckofF; and at present I am as- 
sociated with C. L. Harwood in the firm of Butler 
& Harwood, at No. 135 Broadway, New York City. 

In November, 1882, 1 married Miss Marcia 
Flagg, of Yonkers. I have four children : Ethan 
Flagg Butler, born January 4, 1884, and now at the 
Hotchkiss School, Lakeville, Conn., preparing for 
college; Marcia Flagg Butler, born July 4, 1886; 
Charles Marshall Butler, born January 29, 1887; 
and Henry Franklin Butler, born November 13, 
1896. I have been peculiarly blessed, in that all 
of my children are living. 

I was elected to the modest office of Alderman 
for my ward in Yonkers, which I held for two years, 
in 1887 and 1888. In 1898 I was attached to the 
Anglo-American Joint High Commission, while it 
held its sessions in Washington and Quebec. 

I have published a few pamphlets on the political 
relations of the United States and Spain and on some 
questions of International Law, and I now have in 
press a treatise on the Treaty-Making Power of the 
United States, which will be published, I hope, be- 
fore the twentieth anniversary of the class. 

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AFTER TWENTY YEARS 

I always have been, and I hope 1 always will re- 
main, a Republican and a Presbyterian. I belong 
to the Bar Association, Lawyers' Club, St. Nicholas 
Society, our Republican Club in Yonkers, and the 
Republican Club in New York. 

I hope to be able to attend the Class Reunion at 
Princeton in June, and I shall take great pleasure 
in seeing all the others of the class who can attend. 
I meet other '8t men, and while Richard D. Harlan 
and Paul van Dyke are preaching and teaching the 
gospel, J. Leverett Moore is teaching the women of 
our country, Charlie Munn is instructing them as 
to the progress of invention, Hudnut is in touch 
with all the good investments in Wall Street, and 
Ben Blydenburgh and Grier Monroe are keeping 
the legal end of it straight, I do not see but that 
the world is being substantially advanced and aided 
by the class of '8 i. 

THOMAS W. CAULDWELL 

" I hold he loves me best that calls me Tom." 

My residence is 42 Elm Street, Morristown, N, 
J. My business address is j^^^ Wall Street, N. Y. 

Since graduation I have studied and practised law 
in New York City, devoting myself especially to 
work in surrogate's courts, to real estate law and to 
the management of estates, so that I fear the life I 
have led will be of little interest to my classmates. 

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CANE SPREE AS IT WAS IN 1877. 



PERSONAL BIOGRAPHIES OF '81 

I was married on October 21, 1884, in New York, 
to Miss Caroline S. Johnson, of Albany, N. Y. 
We have had two children, both of whom are living. 



— Elizabeth M, Cauldwell, born January 22, 1888, 
and Helen R. Cauldwell, born November 28, 1891. 

I hold at this time the following positions of trust : 
Trustee of Bishop College, Texas ; Director of U. S. 
Fire Ins. Co., New York City; President of the 
Board of Trustees of a local church ; as well as some 
other positions of trust in church and business mat- 
ters, such as come more or less to all of us. 

I have several times had the honor of being a 
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AFTER TWENTY YEARS 

county " diligate," but have declined further political 
preferment. 

Perhaps the events of my life most interesting to 
my classmates are my narrow escapes from death. 

In 1 88 1, Graeme Harrison and I were wrecked 
off the Irish coast, on a rocky point appropriately 
called " Killmore." We were saved by the life- 
boats. 

In 1885, Gus Webb and I were sent to the moun- 
tains, to save, if possible, our lives already threat- 
ened with serious disease. I recovered. Gus left 
us, but we thank God for the brave fight that he 
made and for the memory we have of his noble 
Hfe. 

Two years ago, I was injured in a fearful elevator 
accident, the result of which was two men killed and 
several severely injured. My skull was badly fract- 
ured, both shoulders and one leg were broken, and 
what was left of me seemed scarcely worth picking 
up. I was taken to a hospital, and after nine days 
regained consciousness, and after nine months recov- 
ered to a great extent my health and strength. This 
much for my escapes. 

No new degree has been conferred on me since 
I left college, except that of M. A., conferred by 
Princeton in 1884. 

In politics I am a Republican, and in religious 
affiliations a Baptist. 

I belong to the Lawyers' Club ; the University 
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PERSONAL BIOGRAPHIES OF '81 

Club ; the Morristown Club ; the Morris County 
Golf Club, and the Washington Association. 
I expect to be at the Class Reunion in June. 

Farr writes : " I have had the pleasure of visiting 
Tommy Cauldwell in his home, and can report that 
his home life is truly beautiful. Since his severe 
accident, his family simply worship him. One has 
to be almost killed to be appreciated." 

J. H. CLARK 

Left the class in April, 1878, and afterward en- 
tered the University of Michigan. His home was 
in Clarksdale, Coahoma County, Miss. 

LEWIS L. CORY 

After graduation I attended the Columbia Law 
School, graduating in 1883, at which time I was ad- 
mitted to practice as an attorney in New York State. 
I was in the office of Judge William Fullerton, of 
New York, for some time, during which time, on 
October 17, 1882, I was married to Miss Carrie A. 
Martin, of Rahway, N. J. After practising in New 
York for two years, I returned to California, and 
have been located in Fresno since 1886. I have 
had my fair share of success, although I have more 
than once regretted the distance that separated me 
from the East and my college associations. 

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AITEK TWENTY YEARS 

I have five children, the three eldest being girls 
and the two youngest hoys, — the latter of whom, you 
may rest assured, are being reared in the anticipation 




of also graduating from 1^-inceton in the future. 
The names and dates of the birth of the children are 
as follows: Edith M. Cory, March lo, 1884; 
Kathrine Cory, August 17, 1887; Margaret Cory, 
March 29, 1891 ; Martin L. Cory, June 4, 1894, 
and Benjamin Cory, October 25, 1896. 

My life has been uneventful, I never having held 
any office, although opportunities have been given 
me to accept nominations as Judge, which 1 have 

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PERSONAL BIOGRAPHIES OF '81 

thus far declined, not wishing to give up my prac- 
tice. Although Republican, 1 have never taken 
any particular interest in politics, my time being en- 
grossed in the active practice of my profession. 

I shall be most glad to attend the Reunion if I 
can possibly arrange it. In fact, I have been laying 
my plans to that end for some time, and hope to 
be successful, as I have never been to Princeton 
since my graduation, and during the interim of 
about twenty years have never had the good fortune 
to meet but one or two of my classmates. 



WILLIAM A. COURSEN, JR. 

My residence is in Morristown, N. J., and my 
place of business is in the Collector's Office of the 
United States Custom House for the Port of New 
York, Wall and William Streets, New York City. 

On leaving college I studied law at the Columbia 
Law School, and received my degree there in May, 
1883. In June, 1883, I was admitted to the New 
York Bar, and for about four years was in the 
office of the Counsel to the Corporation. I con- 
tinued in the practice of the law until about 1890, 
and then travelled extensively over the United States 
and Canada, visiting every State in the Union and 
the principal cities in each. I went up the Atlantic 
coast as far as the northern side of Prince Edward 
Island, and up the Pacific coast as far as Vancouver 

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AFTER TWENTY YEARS 

Island. I lived in Texas for four months, and found 
there some fine hunting, killing my first deer and 
plenty of game on the wing. 




On leaving Texas, I came home by the way of 
the Indian Territory (called Indian Nation down 
there), St. Louis and Niagara Falls, and on January 
9, 1894, took the oath and entered into the service 
of the United States Government; and have been 
there ever since. You ask me to tell about it — 
well ! that would be dry reading, and would be a 
sort of digest of the United States Regulations on 
Customs ; and as our dear old punster, Billy Bacot,, 

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PERSONAL BIOGRAPHIES OF '81 

would say, none of us want to die-jest-yet. They 
say that competition is now so great to get into the 
service, that between the grade of ninety and ninety- 
one per cent, there may be ten or even twenty men 
on the Civil Service list. You see, many now train 
for it, and they are hard to beat. 

I am not married yet, but hope to be before an- 
other duo-decade runs around. 

I voted for McKinley both times. I am a " Blue 
Presbyterian," and am a member of the patriotic 
society of the Sons of the Revolution. 

Do I expect to attend the Reunion in June ? 
Yes, Sir ! I have attended all so far. 



JOHN F. COWAN 

My residence at the present time is Salt Lake 
City, Utah, although I am still interested in Butte 
City, Mont., and spend considerable time there. I 
came to Butte in September, 1881, and have made 
it my home most of the time ever since. I became 
an owner in one of the principal business corners in 
Butte ten years ago, and in company with others 
built a large business block — one of the best in the 
West. I also organized an electric-light company, 
known as the Phcenix Electric Company, and built 
up a good paying business, which I afterward sold 
to the Butte General Electric Company. After 
selling the electric-light plant, I went into the 

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AFTER TWENTY YEARS 

mining business, and am engaged in that at the pres- 
ent time. You never heard of a man in that busi- 
ness that wasn't successful, if he told his own story. 




Candor compels me to say that I haven't drawn a 
prize package every time ; but, taken altogether, I 
guess it will balance up pretty well. 

I was married on July lo, 1883, to Miss Stella 
Goslin, at Oregon, Mo. We have four children — 
three girls and one boy — the youngest being seven 
years old. They are all daisies, too — strong and 
healthy, and as full of ginger as a Princeton sopho- 
more. 

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PERSONAL BIOGRAPHIES OF '81 

The only political office I have held was alder- 
man of the city of Butte. I was nominated by the 
Democracy for mayor, but got caught in the Daly- 
Clark feud and was defeated, — since which time I 
have been a spectator. My politics have always 
been Democratic, but last fall I had to draw the line 
on Bryan and anti-imperialism. I have no religious 
affiliations, nor do I belong to any societies. I 
don't think I will be able to attend the Reunion, as 
the distance is too great. I send the best of wishes 
for a rousing good time. 

JAMES L. COYLE 

Residence, 171 North Seventh Street, Roseville, 
N. J, Business address, 125 West Forty-second 
Street, New York City. My occupation is that of 
life insurance, and I have been engaged in the same 
for fourteen years. [Coyle is connected with the 
Prudential Insurance Company, and is now superin- 
tendent of its Forty-second Street branch, in New 
York City. — Eds.] Prior to taking up life insur- 
ance, I was a school teacher, from the time I left 
college until January, 1887. 

I was married the first time on April 2, 1885, to 
Clara B. Vanderhoof, in Newark, N. J. She died 
in 1886. By that marriage I have one child, Clara 
V. Coyle, born September 29, 1886. I was married 
again, on October i, 1 891, to Laura Frances Har- 

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AFTER TWENTY YEARS 

tung, also in Newark, By the second marriage I 
have a son, John Henry Coyle, born December 29, 
1897. 

1 have never held any pubHc or poHtical office, nor 




any other places of prominence, and have not writ- 
ten any books or made any invention or discovery. 
I have obtained no degree except that of A.M. 
from Princeton. I am a Republican and a Presby- 
terian, and belong to the Roseville Athletic Associ- 
ation. 1 expect to attend our Class Reunion. 



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CHARLES EDMISTON CRAVEN 

My home is at Mattituck, where, since Septem- 
ber, 1895, ^ have had the charge of the Presbyte- 
rian church. 

Twenty years ago the Nassau Herald destined me 
for " medicine," not by my vohtion, but by an 
undetected error whereby " Und." was printed 
" Med." Being really undecided, I taught for two 
years in the York (Pa.) Collegiate Institute, and 
then, seeing my way, entered the Class of '86 in the 
Princeton Theological Seminary. Through the 
Seminary course I supported myself by private tu- 

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AFTER TWENTY YEARS 

toring, I have never regretted the two years' delay 
in taking up my theological studies, for the experi- 
ence as a teacher has been invaluable to me in the 
ministry, and it was in York that I found my wife. 

I was ordained to the ministry June 15, 1886. 
My first charge was in Birmingham, Huntingdon 
County, Pa., where I remained until the fall of 1888. 
While in Birmingham I married Miss Anna Schenck 
McDougall, of York, Pa. In the fall of 1888 1 
became pastor of the Central Presbyterian Church 
of Downingtown, Pa. After more than six years in 
Downingtown I resigned my charge, taught in New- 
ark, N. J., my native city, for half a year, and in 
the following September came to Mattituck. 

We have five children : Virginia Coryell, Sarah 
Landreth, Julia McDougall, James McDougall 
(known as " Mac"), and Charles Edmiston, Jr. 
These are my riches. 

I am the author of a little book entitled " Jesus 
and Children." I have been busy all these years, 
having enjoyed the blessing of health, without one 
day in bed by reason of illness. I have kept up 
some of my studies, partly in my professional line 
and partly in the preparation of a number of boys 
and girls for college. 

My church is nearly two hundred years old. The 
people are of good old New England stock, this 
section of Long Island having been settled from 
New Haven in 1640. The family names on the 

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THE PRINCETONIAN BOARD, 1881. 



PERSONAL BIOGRAPHIES OF '81 



church-roll to-day are largely the same as those cut 
in the early part of the eighteenth century on the 
stones in the old 
burying-ground. 

Though a city 
boy, I have become 
a country man, and 
if you will come and 
see me in the sum- 
mer time I will give 
you fresh fruit and 
vegetables from my 
own garden, besides 
taking you bathing, 
sailing, fishing, and 
crabbing. I will also 
take you wheeling 
on the finest cycle 
paths in the coun- 
try. I think you will agree with me that if one must 
live in the country, this is the place to choose. 

In politics I am independent. I have usually 
voted the Republican ticket in State and national 
elections, but don't bind myself to do so, and in 
local elections my vote is usually split. 

I fondly hope to attend the Reunion in June, after 
the unbelievable lapse of twenty years. The other 
day my little Mac was walking with me, and ex- 
claimed : 

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Presbyterian Church, Mattituck. 
Rev. Chas. E. Craven, Pastor. 



AF'IKK TWENTY YEARS 

" Pupa, you walk just like a young man ! " 

" And am 1 not a young man ? " 

" Why, no ! you're more than forty ! " 

h'ov the he?iefit ot those ot the elass who have not 
heen to Mattituek, and are wondering where it is, 
anyhow, the eommittee has obtained Charlie's per- 
mission to reprint the following pastoral poetry (no 
pun intended) written iiy him for another occasion : 

What ? Never been to Mattituek ? 
Well, stranger, you're in hardest luek ! 
What ? Ik-en to EnglancI, France, and Spain, 
All JMiiopc o'er, and back again ? 
And missed a sight so near your home ! 
You've seen Berlin, Moscow, and Rome, 
All full of art and ancient truck. 
And never been to Mattituek ? 
Well, that beats me ! "\'ou'\e been to see 
I'he little Jap and fool Chinee, 
You've travelled through Suez. Canal, 
Been in Bomba\ , and through Bengal, 
You've been where men talk Poitugucsc, 
Ikiigali, Polish, Cingalese, 
Slavonic, Zend, ant! Volapuk, 
And ne'er set toot in Mattituek ? 

Don't tell me vou'\ e been up the Nile ! 
And at the Cape, with Zulus vile, 
And up the Congo, and Zambezi, 
Where clothes are scant and manners easy, 
And never had the sense or luck 
To set your foot in Mattituek ! 
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It doesn't show a balanced mind 
To see the earth and all mankind, 
To visit every foreign strand, 
While you neglect your native land. 

But what ? You've travelled every State, 

From Boston Bay to Golden Gate, 

From east to west extremity ? 

You've seen the great Yosemite, 

Niagara Falls, and Mammoth Cave ? 

You've been where alligators lave 

In Florida's sunny everglade, 

Where flowers bloom and never fade ? 

In Tennessee, and old Kentuck, 

And never been in Mattituck ! 

You're like a reader who can't spell ! 

You're like a seer who can't foretell ! 

You're like a hydrophobic duck ! 

A traveller ne'er in Mattituck ! 

Where's Mattituck ? It's on Long Island, 
And neither vale nor lofty highland 
In all the Empire State's extent 
Can yield you more of sweet content. 
You may come back with laden hands, 
With treasures rare from many lands ; 
Rich Klondike gold you may have struck. 
But if you've not struck Mattituck 
You're poor. You may have travelled wide, 
Enriched your mind, and swelled your pride, 
But you're uncultured, uninstruc- 
Ted, till you've lived in Mattituck 

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AFTER TWENTY YEARS 

Though tasting joys of many a kind 
No full contentment fills your mind -, 
You'll never be in perfect luck 
Until you visit JVlattituck. 



ROBERT CRESSWELL 

Lives in Philadelphia. He left the class and 
college in January, 1878, and went into business in 
the firm of Breed & Cresswell. He has never kept 
up his connection with the class, and has not re- 
sponded to the committee's inquiries ; but Bob 
Williams writes : " I met him on the golf links of 
the Atlantic City Country Club the past two sum- 
mers, and he still claims to be an '81 man. He 
beat me unmercifully at golf." 

EDWARD FLOYD CROSBY 

Every '81 man who entered at the beginning of 
Freshman year remembers Crosby with liking. He 
was with the class only two months. In playing 
football he received severe injury by an accidental 
kick on the head, lying unconscious for more than a 
day, so that the Faculty suspended the ringing of 
the college bell, and the paths in the vicinity of East 
College, where his room was, were covered with 
tan-bark to deaden all noise. This injury compelled 
him to leave college, and it was long before he re- 
covered from its effects. He subsequentlv studied 

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law in Newport, R. 1., and in December, i88i,was 
admitted to the Bar in that State. Entering a law 




office in New York City, he was shortly afterward 
admitted to the New York Bar. 

In the autumn of 1882 he went out to Helena, 
Mont., where he entered the employ of the First 
National Bank. He also continued to practise law, 
and undertook some newspaper work as correspond- 
ent for certain New York and other papers. A 
series of his letters from Alaska was extensively 
copied throughout the country. Later he went into 
real estate operations. 

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AFTER TWENTY YEARS 

He was married, in Brooklyn, N. Y., to Jennie 
Eliza Brewer, daughter of the Right Rev. Leigh R. 
Brewer, Bishop of the Episcopal Church in Mon- 
tana; and they had one child, Margaret Floyd Cros- 
by, born June 20, 1887. 

Crosby died suddenly in Helena, on May 16, 
1890, in the thirty-second year of his age. His 
widow and child survive him. The former married 
again and is now living in Australia. 



CHARLES DANFORTH 

Died of pneumonia, in Athens, Greece, on March 
13, 1896, in the thirty-seventh year of his age. 

Danforth, so well known in the class as Charlie 
Ryle, was born and lived in Paterson, N. J. After 
graduation, he made a four months' trip abroad, and 
then was for some years engaged in the raw-silk 
importing business in New York City, with the firm 
of William Ryle & Co. On April 8, 1886, he was 
married to Miss Claudia Ellen Greppo, of Paterson, 
and they had three children — Charles Ryle Danforth, 
born January 21, 1887; Claudia Danforth, born 
July 18, 1888, and Marion Ellen Danforth, born 
March 16, 1895. 

After his marriage, he resided for three years in 
New York ; the following three years in Montclair, 
N. J. ; and thereafter, until the date of his death, in 
Europe. 

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While living in Paterson, he held for several years 
the office of Treasurer of the Free Public Library ; 
other than this he never held any public trust or 




office. He was a Republican ; and, while not a 
member of any religious body, latterly attended the 
Episcopal church. He was a member of the Uni- 
versity Club of New York City. 

At the Reunion of the class, at the Sesquicenten- 
nial, a committee was appointed which prepared the 
following resolutions : 

The members of the Class of 1881, Princeton College, 
assembled in Princeton, on October 21, 1896, to celebrate 

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AFTER TWENTY YEARS 

the fifteenth anniversary of their graduation, have learned 
with deep regret of the sad death oi' their classmate, Charles 
Dan forth. 

His kindly and generous nature and his cheerful disposi- 
tion had endeared him to us all, had brightened memories of 
college days, and contributed to the joy and pleasure of the 
class reunions in which he had joined. 

Therefore it is resolved, that we hereby express to his 
family our high appreciation of his fellowship and friend- 
ship, and our sense of personal loss by his untimely death, 
and that we extend to his family our deepest sympathy in 
their affliction. 

And it is further resolved, that these resolutions be en- 
tered upon the class records, and that the Secretary be ^di- 
rected to send a copy to the family of our deceased classmate. 
Class of 1 88 1 of Princeton College, by 
John O. H. Pitney, 
Paul yAN Dyke, 
James L. Coyle, 

Committee. 
Dated Princeton, N. J., October 21, 1896. 



WILLIAM H. DARDEN 

I am a minister of the Gospel in Petaluma, CaL 
For three years after I left college I was in the 
Theological Seminary. When I graduated there, I 
came here, and here I have been preaching ever 
since. I have not turned the city upside down, but 
I have tried to turn and overturn, and block the 
ways of sin as best I could. I organized the church 

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here, collected the money, and built the church— nO' 
easy task in this Western world — and now we have 
about as large a congregation as any Protestant 




church here. Our membership is small, on account 
of the transient population. We have almost to 
catch men "on the fly" in this country, if we get 
them at all. 

I have been married seventeen years. I married 
Miss Fanny D. Barlow, of this place (Petaluma). 
We have two children — a girl, Rena Elizabeth Dar- 
den, of thirteen years, and a boy, William Earl 
Darden, of eleven. They will weigh as much and 

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AFTER TWENTY YEARS 

they look as well as any of the sons and daughters 
of '8 1 of the same age, and will compare favorably 
with any of them. I wish I could see them all in 
line next June. 

I am a " Blue-stocking Presbyterian," so ordained 
before the foundation of the world. I have never 
dabbled in politics, though I am deeply interested 
in my country. I am for McKinley and prosperity, 
and can't help it. I am now School Director of this 
city, and Clerk of the Board of Education. This 
is one of the important things in this Western world 
— the education of the young. I take great pleas- 
ure in doing all I can to make it what it ought to be. 

Nothing would afford me more pleasure than to 
meet with '8i in June next. If I am delegate to 
the General Assembly, which meets in Philadelphia 
in May, I shall attend the Reunion. If I am not 
there, give the boys, all, my love^ and say to them 
that I am present in spirit. May peace and pros- 
perity attend them all. 

FREDERIC MOREAU DAVIS 

There are times in a man's life when his troubles 
seem to weigh him down. I have struck just such 
a time at the present moment. Our dear friend and 
chairman has hauled me over the coals because I 
did not have enough sap, enough of the human ele- 
ment and the personal savor as well as running talk 

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in my first replies to his questions. Now, if I were 
a writer, I could fulfil all the conditions required ; 
but, being merely an ordinary business man, it is 




utterly impossible for me to obtain even fifty per 
cent, if Ed. Dix marks the paper. But I see he is 
associated with Aleck, Levie and Tom, and I am 
hopeful that they will help me through. 

If there is one place I love more than any other 
— I was about to say that place is Princeton ; but I 
had better change that a trifle (for the sake of my 
own comfort at home), so that my words will be : 
Next to my own town, I love Princeton. The con- 

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AFTKU rWENTY YEARS 

struction is perhaps slightlv mixed, but my meaning 
IS clear. 

Yes, I will be in Princeton the coming June. 

Mv residence is 147 Orchard Street, Bloomtieid, 
N. ). My business address is 1 V2 Nassau Street, 
New York. 1 am still with the same firm, H. G. 
Craig \' Co. ; business, commission mercliants and 
manufacturers of paper. 

1 am married, having ''gone and done it " on 
February ~, 1SS4. My wife's name was Miss Au- 
gusta Stalker. My children are all boys : Raymond 
Foster OuN is, April :^, 1SS5; Charles Moreau 
Davis, April ~, iSSS; and Warren Stalker Oavis, 
October 11,1 Si)4. 

The political and public ofHces w hich I have held 
ha\e been merely local in character. 1 have writ- 
ten quite a number of articles for literary societies, 
etc., but none were good enough to give to the out- 
side world. 1 have not changed my political afHlia- 
tions, and am, as ot yore, a Republican. Neither 
ha\e mv religious props been knocked from under 
me by higher criticism, etc. 1 am vet a Presbyte- 
rian, thoutrh a liberal one. 

I am lookuio; torward with the happiest anticipa- 
tions to our Reunion in June, and hope that the 
attendance will be lartie. 



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Art Brown 

Museum. Hall. 




Old Gymnasium. 
RAILROAD ENTRANCE TO THE CAMPUS. 



Alexander HalL 




WILLIAM C. DAVIS 

** When they talked of their Raphaels, Correggios and stuff. 
He shifted his trumpet and only took snuff." 

1. Residence, ^6 West Thirty-fifth Street, New 
York City; business address, 120 Broadway, New 
York City. 

2. Occupation, lawyer. I studied in the office of 
Hon. Andrew Reed, Lewiston, Pa., from August, 
1879, to August, 1881 ; came to New York City in 
August, 1 88 1, and have practised law here ever 
since. 

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AFTER TWENTY YEARS 

3. I have never been married. 

4. I have never held public office. Have been 
general counsel to the United Press, the organiza- 
tion which succeeded to the business of the old New 
York Associated Press, since 1893; President and 
Director in the Oscar Barnett Foundry Company, 
of Newark, N. J.; and am still counsel to other 
corporations and concerns. I have written and pub- 
lished some articles on certain legal aspects of the 
Philippine question, which have been kindly received. 
Have made a special study of international law. 

My special fad is music. I have quite a large col- 
lection of the operatic scores, oratorios, symphonies, 
and piano music of the old and modern masters of the 
art, together with a considerable number of books, 
comprising musical history, biographies of the prin- 
cipal composers, and critical and miscellaneous essays 
by various writers. During the season, I am a fre- 
quent attendant at the opera and other musical en- 
tertainments. Very few important musicians have 
visited New York in the past ten years whom I have 
not heard at least once, and I have listened to most 
of them many times. Some of them I cultivate as 
friends. I am also a frequent visitor at the picture 
galleries. Modesty bids me say that though I am 
very fond of pictures and own a few in oil and 
water colors, I have decided that I know nothing 
about pictures, and probably never shall. 

5. I am a Republican in politics: member of the 

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Union League Club, Lotos Club, and Larchmont 
Yacht Club. 

6. I may possibly attend the Class Reunion in 
June. 

7. Circumstances have not brought me into very 
frequent contact with many of the members of our 
class since leaving college, most of those whom I 
formerly knew having been residents of other places. 
I often see Pliny Fisk, who I am told is a mem- 
ber of the banking firm of Harvey Fisk & Sons, at 
3 1 Nassau Street, and is very successful and pros- 
perous. He owns the large steam yacht Admiral, 
and is also fond of horses and driving. John L. 
Kirk and I have for some time occupied law offices 
in the same suite, and our conferences are naturally 
frequent, and to me very pleasant. I used occa- 
sionally to attend services at the First Presbyterian 
Church, at Fifth Avenue and Twelfth Street, while 
Rev. Richard D. Harlan was pastor, and greatly 
enjoyed and profited by his ministrations ; and 
sometimes remained after the services to give him a 
grasp of the hand and wish him god-speed. My 
meetmgs with Blydenburgh, Brant, Butler, Cauld- 
well, Hudnut, Minor, Monroe, and others have 
been somewhat rare, and generally consist of little 
more than a word of greeting. 



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EDWIN A. DIX 

*' 'T is pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print ; 
A book 's a book, altho' there 's nothing in 't." 

After graduation, I made a bicycle tour in Eng- 
land and France with Irv. Withington, '80, and then 
returned to study on my Fellowship, — the Histori- 
cal. During the following two years I attended the 
Columbia Law School, obtaining the degree of LL. B., 
and was later admitted as a member of the New York 
and New Jersey Bars. 

For some years I had an office in New York and 
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PERSONAL BIOGRAPHIES OF '81 

one in Newark, and practised law — rather half-heart- 
edly, I am afraid, for I developed an increasing dis- 
taste for it as a profession, though I shall always 
value the legal training and general business experi- 
ence which it gives. During this time my parents 
and my brother and I made three long summer trips 
abroad, the third one being to the Pyrenees ; and in 
1890 I published, through the Putnams, "A Mid- 
summer Drive Through the Pyrenees." 

In the summer of that year, I finally closed my 
legal desk for good and all, and left with my family 
for a long two-year trip around the world — travelling 
in Algeria, Tunis, Malta, Egypt, Palestine and Syria, 
Asia Minor, Turkey, Greece, and the Balkan Prov- 
inces ; then in Ceylon, India, and the little visited 
land of Burma, 

" On the road to Mandalay, 
Where the flying fishes play," 

going, in fact, all the way up to Mandalay itself. 
Then came China and Japan, finishing with Alaska 
and our own great West. 

After our return home, I became literary editor on 
The Churchman^ of New York, a position I held until 
1895. ^^ August of that year I was married to 
Miss Marion Alden Olcott, at her family's summer 
home in Cherry Valley, N. Y. ; and since that time 
I suppose I may say that my occupation has been 
that of authorship. I have published, through the 

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AFTER TWENTY YEARS 

Century Company, two novels, "Deacon Bradbury " 
and " Old Bowen's Legacy," and have a couple of 
others now " on the stocks " ; besides contributing 
various short stories and articles to the Century and 
other periodicals. It is very congenial work to me, 
and I think that one can express, in a novel that 
tries to be true to nature, not only the lighter side 
of things but many earnest thoughts on life and 
living. 

My permanent home address is 123 Harrison 
Street, East Orange, N. J., but my wife and I have 
so far spent our winters in Florida, Colorado, Switz- 
erland and Egypt, and our summers in the country 
or also abroad. You see, a maker of fiction has this 
great convenience, that he can carry his workshop 
around with him and is not tied to a place. 

I am a Republican (with previous Cleveland affil- 
iations) and a Presbyterian; am perhaps less a 
"poller" than I used to be reputed, though, I think, 
quite as capable, on demand, of hard work and close 
application ; but I have grown more sanely fond of 
out-door living, sailing and tennis and the like, and 
am a member of the St. Augustine Golf Club, St. 
Augustine, Fla., where we now have a winter cot- 
tage. I am a member of the Authors' Club, of 
New York. 

1 shall most certainly be at the Reunion. As 
Preston puts it, farther on, " 1 would not miss it for 
anything. ' 1 find that my interest in the class, and 

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my personal regard for the fellows in it, grows 
warmer and firmer, rather than lessens, with the pass- 
ing of the years ; and I eagerly welcome the oppor- 
tunity to renew and strengthen old acquaintance. 




WILLIAM S. DODD 

** God sifted a whole nation that He might send choice grain 
over into this wilderness." 

I have been waiting for the summons to write for 
the Class Record, and welcomed it this week. It 
finds me where I have been for the last fourteen 

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AFTER TWENTY YEARS 

years (in Cesarea, Asia Minor, Turkey), with the 
exception of a year spent in study in Germany, 
1890-91, and a year of furlough in America, 1896- 
97, when I had the good fortune to be at our quin- 
decennial reunion and see many of you. I have been 
keeping on in the same medical missionary work, 
only with enlarging opportunities to do more good. 
In 1892 my dispensary was built; and last year saw 
the erection of a hospital, which when completely 
finished and furnished will accommodate seventy 
beds. At present there are but twenty beds, but I 
am now finishing off another ward to contain ten 
more, and hope to put the rest into shape in due 
time. Aside from the building of this hospital, I 
have nothing to record of my doings or attainments, 
office or rank, inventions or degrees. 

In politics I am an independent American expan- 
sionist and civil service reformer. A life abroad 
strengthens a man's love for his own country, but at 
the same time enables him to see and appreciate de- 
fects, to look with something of the eyes of an out- 
sider. The highest development of the world-wide 
influence of our country, through an increase of its 
own territory, and through a worthy representation, 
diplomatic and consular, appears to me a noble ideal. 

As to religious affiliations, I am a Presbyterian, 
working under a Congregational missionary society, 
with a Methodist for my chief associate in the hos- 
pital, but having most to do with Gregorian Ar- 

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PERSONAL BIOGRAPHIES OF '81 

menians, Orthodox Greeks, and, above all, with 
Mohammedans. 

I was married to Mary Louise Carter, in New 
York City, June 24, 1886. Children, six, and all 
living. Our oldest boy, Ned, has gone home to 
America to get ready for Princeton for the class of '09. 

I am asked to give information about any of the 
fellows that I am in touch with. If I could touch 
the hand of one of you fellows out here, it would be 
an event to be chronicled and to write a column 
article in the newspapers to celebrate it. We hope 
to have a railway here in the course of this century, 
and perhaps someone will then come. 



Billy is doing a splendid work out there in Asia 
Minor, and his classmates will all wish him increasing 

success. He has 
performed over two 
thousand operations 
and has treated more 
than sixty thousand 
patients ; never for- 
getting, in addition, 
the missionary side 
of his work. The 
accompanying pict- 
ure shows the new 
hospital building, which is in the town of Talas, five 
miles from Cesarea. Considering the price of labor, 

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The New Hospital at Talas, Cesarea. 
Rev. William S. Dodd, M.D. 



AFTER TWENTY YEARS 

it would have cost about 140,000 in America. He 
had it put up for 17,172. The material is a light 
gray tufa, trimmed with a harder red stone which 
sets off the color to advantage. 




WILLIAM A. DOUGALL 

*' A man severe he was, and stern to view ; 
We knew him well, and everv truant knew." 

There is not much change in my life or fortune 
during the past ten years. I am still married to 
Emma Jane Dean. I am still teaching in the pub- 

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PERSONAL BIOGRAPHIES OF '81 

lie schools of Newark, N. J., being now Principal 
of the Monmouth Street School, with about 1,200 
pupils and 27 teachers. My residence is 213 South 
Sixth Street, Newark. 

There are two changes which I may note : 

I have another boy, Andrew Kenneth, who was 
born on November 25, 1896. I have two other 
children — Elizabeth Jean, born in 1882, and Donald 
Macpherson, born in 1889. 

I have also become a Free and Accepted Mason, 
which order I joined in 1897. I belong to St. 
John's Lodge, No. i, of Newark. 

In regard to Question No. 4, I can simply an- 
swer, " Nothing." I am still a Republican in 
politics, and a Presbyterian in church matters, but 
do not take much interest in either. 

I hope to be in Princeton in June, so as to at- 
tend the Class Reunion. 



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ARTHUR C. DOUGHERTY 

" The wise for cure on exercise depend ; 

God never made his work for man to mend." 

My life since leaving college in 1879 has been 
rather an uneventflil one, and signalized rather by 
omissions than otherwise. 

To begin, my address is 158 Washington Street, 
Newark, N. J. I am an M.D., having graduated 
(spare my blushes) among the first ten of my class 
— receiving a special diploma and " geld " for same 
— at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Class 

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PERSONAL BIOGRAPHIES OF '81 

of 1882. Since then I have pegged away at my 
professional work, with modest success. 

I was married on December 12, 1887, in Brook- 
lyn, to Miss Mary G. Vose, and have one son, 
Clarence V., born September 27, 1888. 

My political faith is Republican — American — as 
I hope to be to the end. My service of public 
office is confined to School Commissionerships in 
'86 and '87 on the Democratic ticket — a case of self- 
limited heredity. I am now First Lieutenant and 
Surgeon of the Essex Troop (First Troop, N. G. 
N. J.), member of the Practitioners' Club of this 
city. Visiting Physician to the City Hospital, Treas- 
urer of the Newark Board of U. S. Pensions Sur- 
geons, and member respectively of the Essex District 
and State Medical Society, and the Association of 
U. S. Military Surgeons. 

Being a general practitioner, my religious convic- 
tions find their expression rather in facta than in 
verba, 

I know practically nothing of my classmates. I 
fear my inability to attend the Class Reunion in 
June, but should the opportunity present itself, I 
will try to renew my past and most happy acquaint- 
ance at that anniversary meeting. 



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HENRY G. DUFFIELD 

My business address is University Offices, Prince- 
ton, N. J., and my home is on Library Place, where 
I shall hope to entertain the Class in June. 

After graduating I went into business in Trenton, 
N. J., where I stayed until August, 1885. I re- 
turned to Princeton and entered the Treasurer's 
office of the University, where I now am and have 
been ever since I returned. In June, 1892, I was 
made Assistant Treasurer, which office I still hold. 

On November 8, 1899, I was married in Hart- 
ford, Conn., to Miss Florence L. Morrell. A ju- 

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nior member was added to the "Annex " to the Class 
February 4, 1901, — by name, Susan Cornelia Duf- 
field. 

I am a Republican in politics and a Presbyterian. 
I shall attend the Reunion in June. 

Since Henry sent in the above report, his father, 
Professor Duffield, one of the old-time members of 
the Faculty, and one of the professors best loved 
and remembered by every '81 man, as indeed by 
Princeton men of every living class, has passed 
away. He died at his home, in Princeton, from heart 
failure, after a brief illness, on April 10, 1901. 

The Rev. Dr. John Thomas Duffield was born 
in McConnellsville, Fulton County, Pa., on Feb- 
ruary 19, 1823. Since the time of his entering the 
College of New Jersey as a sophomore in the Class 
of 1838, his life has been devoted to the college. 
Soon after entering the Princeton Theological Sem- 
inary, in 1844, Dr. Duffield was elected tutor in 
Greek in the College. In 1854 he was elected to 
the emeritus chair in Mathematics, which he held 
at the time of his death. He was licensed to preach 
in 1 849, and filled the pulpit of the Second Presby- 
terian Church in Princeton for many years. He 
had been of late strongly in favor of the creed re- 
vision. Dr. Duffield's most important work during 
the latter years of his life has been directing the ap- 
plication of the large funds in the University devoted 

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AFTER TWENTY YEARS 

to the assistance of needy students. In this capacity, 
says the New York Tribune^ Dr. Duffield became 
well known among the students, by whom he was 
held in high honor and esteem. 

Besides our classmate, he leaves two other sons — 
the Rev. Howard Duffield, of the First Presbyterian 
Church of New York City, and Edward A. Duf- 
field, a lawyer, in Fast Orange, N. J. His two 
daughters. Miss Helen and Miss Sarah, lived with 
him at l^rinceton. 

CHARLES E. DUNN 

" Such vast impressions did his sermons make. 

He always kept his flock awake." — Prtfr Pindar. 

In the fall of 1881 I entered Union Theological 
Seminary, where I completed my course, graduating 
in the spring of 1884. At that time the Presbyte- 
rian Church at Hempstead, F. !., the oldest Presby- 
terian Church in America, was vacant. I was 
invited to preach for them. They were 240 years 
old when 1 appeared before them. " The centuries 
were looking down upon me." However, their 
wisdom had not kept pace with their longevity, 
which appears from the fact that they immediately 
gave me a unanimous call to become their pastor. 
I accepted the call and was ordained and installed at 
Hempstaed, July 22, 1884, by the Presbytery of 
Nassau. 

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In the meantime there was another " vacancy " in 
Plainfield, N. )., my home city. I had been " can- 
didating " for some time. I^inally I received a 




"call." Miss Kmma M. Demarest and f were 
married August 14, 18H4, at Plainfield, N. J. This 
is about the best thing I ever did. 1 have had 
three churches up to date. Twice have 1 been 
"dissolved." But, though living within shouting 
distance of South Dakota, the union which was con- 
tracted August 14, 1884, is stronger than ever and 
is in no prospect of " dissolution." Six children 
have blessed this union. 

My pastorate in Hempstead continued until No- 
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AFTER IWENIY YEARS 

vember, 1888, when 1 was called to the Third 
Presbyterian Church of Albany, N. Y. I labored 
there until December, 1895, when 1 was called to 
the First Presbyterian Church of l^'reeport. 111. Mv 
pasttMates both at 1 lenipstead and Albany were 
sint>oth and delightful. Nothing specialU' e\entt'ul 
hapj-iened in either ot them. There were problems 
to solye, and though 1 never solved them to my 
own satisfaction, the exercise toughened my ribre, 
added a virtue or two to the meagre stock, that I 
possessed when 1 began, and gave me a knowledge 
of human nature which neither McCosh, Shedd, nor 
\ litchcock ever imparted. One thing 1 have learned 
very clearly — the ama/ing long-suffering ot the 
average church member. President Patton once 
remarked that the average preacher kills three con- 
gregations betore he learns how to preach. 1 am 
now on my third, and the process ot extermination 
is rapidly progressing. 1 hope to be able to report 
at our fortieth anniversary that 1 have graduated 
from the school of assassination and am devoting 
the rest of my days to a course in " benevolent as- 
similation." 

In January, 1896, I began my ministry in Free- 
port. A leap of a thousand miles was somethini^; of 
a venture. But the West holds the future. Instead 
of the buffalo and the Indian, which we anticipated 
would threaten the satety of our arri\al,we were de- 
lighted to find a hiijh decree ot ci\ili/ation. Free- 

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PERSONA!. BIOGRAPHIES OF '81 



port is a fine little city of 14,000 inhabitants, with 
considerable culture, and large manufacturing inter- 
ests. My church has about five hundred members, 
is by all odds the strong- 
est in the city, and is one 
of the largest between 
Chicago and St. J-'aul. 
My ministry here has 
been uniformly pleasant, 
and 1 trust fruitful. The 
ministry grows upon me 
from year to year. 1 be- 
Heve it brings out the 
deepest and the best 
there is in a man. 

No special honors have 
come to me. I repre- 
sented the Presbytery of 
Albany in the (jeneral i''-^ i^««hyterian church, Frceport, 111. 

^ _ _ Rev. Charles E. Dunn, Pastor. 

Assembly at Detroit in 

1891. I found myself on the liberal side in the 
great theological controversy that began at that time. 
I am a Revisionist of the Herrick Johnson type. 
The request of the committee to state any connec- 
tion with directorships, etc., is my only apology for 
saying that I am one of the Directors of the Du- 
buque Theological Seminary and First Vice-Presi- 
dent of the Illinois Anti-Saloon League. In politics, 
as between the two great political parties, my inclina- 

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AFTER TWENTY YEARS 

tions at present are toward the Republican. How- 
ever, I have not openly affiHated with any party, 
and have frequently voted the Prohibition ticket. 




EDWIN M. ELLIS 

After completing the course at the Princeton 
Theological Seminary, Kllis was sent by the Board 
of Home Missions to Stevensville, Mont., where 
he remained until 1891. He organized and built 
three churches, and re-officered another ; organized 
several Sunday-schools, and the Missoula County 

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PERSONAL BIOGRAPHIES OF '81 

Sunday-school Association, of which he was Secre- 
tary. He also edited a paper, called The Light of 
the Valley. In the fall of 1891 he was appointed 
Presbyterial Sabbath-school Missionary for the 
Presbytery of Montana, and when that Presbytery 
developed into the Synod of Montana, he became 
Sy nodical Sunday-school Missionary, being ap- 
pointed by the Presbyterian Board of Publication 
and Sunday-school Work. He has labored in 
that capacity ever since, his headquarters being at 
Helena. 

Ellis was married, July 28, 1883, in Amherst, 
N. H.,to Miss Lilla M. Prince, and they have two 
children, — a boy, now fourteen years old, and a girl 
almost twelve. 

He is a member of the State Prohibition Com- 
mittee of Montana, and belongs to the Prohibition 
Party. He has been twice appointed Commissioner 
to the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church 
in the United States. He writes that he does not 
expect to attend the Reunion. 

The Rev. Dr. James A. Worden, Superintendent 
of the Presbyterian Board of Publication and Sab- 
bath-school Work, writing to the committee, pays 
the following tribute to Ellis's work : 

" The Rev. E. M. Ellis has been a faithful and 
successful Sabbath-school Missionary of this Board. 
He has been in our employ for about ten years, dur- 
ing all of which time he has labored in the State 

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AFTER TWENTY YEARS 

of Montana. He shows in his last annual report 
twenty-five Presbyterian Churches organized as the 
direct outgrowth of the work which he has estab- 
lished. He now has under his care over one hun- 
dred Mission Sabbath-schools in different parts of 
the State ; and a large number of Home Depart- 
ments, in settlements where it is impracticable, on 
account of distances, to have a Sabbath-school. Mr. 
Ellis does a great deal of itinerant missionarv work, 
and is a good evangelist. The work among the Ind- 
ians is an interesting feature, two churches having 
been developed and six chapel buildings erected 
among them during the past eight and one - half 
years. 

"In a State as large as Montana, often without 
any other S. S. missionary in that whole region to 
help him, we consider that he has accomplished 
great results." 

T. H. POWERS FARR 

A few days after graduating I was offered and ac- 
cepted a position in the office of Fisk & Hatch, 
which Pliny had kindly secured for me. For two 
years I remained with them, and obtained a very 
good general idea of the banking business. In the 
spring of 1883, just before my marriage, I became a 
member of a Stock Exchange firm, which (with some 
changes in the meantmie) continues to do busmess, 

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under the firm name of Kilbreth & Farr, in the At- 
lantic Building, corner of Wall and William Streets, 
New York City. 

I was married on April 14, 1883, in St. James's 




Church, Philadelphia, to Maria W. Harding ; and 
in the following autumn located in Llewellyn Park, 
Orange, N. J., — within a short distance of Charlie 
Munn, who perhaps, more than any one else, was 
responsible for our choice of Orange as a home. 
We have continued to live in Orange ever smce ; 
spendmg our winters in New York until the children 
grew old enough to go to school, when we found it 

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AFTER TWENTY YEARS 

necessary and desirable to live continuously in the 
country. Our present home, known as the " Home- 
stead," we purchased three years ago. It is on top 
of the Orange Mountain, about 650 feet above the 
sea-level, in the town of West Orange, N. J. We 
have some twelve acres, and thoroughly enjoy real 
country life. We have a few horses, several cows, 
and a lot of chickens, and indulge in a little general 
farming. 

During the season, we play considerable golf, on 
the Essex County Country Club links near by. 
Incidentally, I am willing at any time to play any 
member of the Class of '8 i for the golf championship 
of the class, — the loser to provide a suitable dinner 
for those members of '81 that can be secured. 

In addition to the Class-Cup boy, T. H. Powers 
Farr, Jr., born February 21, 1884, we have three 
children, — Georgiana Harding Farr, May 30, 1886; 
Barclay Harding Farr, September 6, 1890, and Will- 
iam Rush Farr, April 6, 1899. Powers expects to 
enter Princeton in the autumn of 1903. Barclay 
goes to Groton in the fall of 1901, and should 
enter Princeton six years later. 

If I am distmguished in any way, and I believe I 
am, it is solely through the merits of my family. 
The only official position that I occupy at the pres- 
ent time is that of vice-president of the Guayaquil & 
Quito Railway Company, and president of the South 
American Railway Construction Company. This 

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PERSONAL BIOGRAPHIES OF '81 

railroad when completed will run from Guayaquil, on 
the coast of Ecuador, to Quito, the capital, and the 
highest city in the world, — about 304 miles ; cross- 
ing the Andes at an elevation of 13,000 feet. We 
have constructed to date the most difficult portion 
of the line, namely, the section from the coast to the 
top of the Andes. 

In politics, 1 have never had occasion to vote any 
other than the Republican ticket, although I should 
not hesitate to do so, if I believed the other party 
represented higher principles, or if it should happen 
to nominate the better man. In religion, since mar- 
riage, I have been an active member of the Episco- 
pal Church, doing some work as a vestryman and 
choir-boy. In the matter of clubs, I have been 
chairman of the Out-Door Sports Committee of the 
Essex County Country Club, at Orange, and a Gov- 
ernor since its incorporation in 1887; and am also 
a member of the Down-Town Association of New 
York, and of the University and the Princeton Clubs. 

The following items about some of the class may 
be of interest : 

Since Frank Landon became so intimate with the 
English nobility, I have seen less of him. It may 
be that he is busy explaining why the Seventh Reg- 
iment does not go to South Africa and " stand shoul- 
der to shoulder with their English cousins," as he 
promised in case of need. 

1 never knew what the difference was between 
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AFTER TWENTY YEARS 

Jack Fowler and the proverbial elephant, until I saw 
Jack climb a tree. While spending one Sunday with 
us he insisted upon cutting down all the branches 
that were dead or obstructed the view ; and the risk 
he ran in doing it was terrible to behold. He is a 
most desirable guest, as he always works his passage. 

I see Pliny Fisk when I go to see him ; but the 
rarefied air that he breathes in the realms of " haute 
finance " is not suited to the blood of the average 
mortal. I hope some day to breathe the same at- 
mosphere, and see more of him. 

Billy Coursen and I used to cross on the Barclay 
Street boat quite often together. One day Billy 
told me that he was raising money for a monument 
to be placed between the Halls — and / have not- 
seen him since. 

One Sunday I happened to be in Rochester, and 
my host called my attention to the sportmg parson 
of the place. I was surprised to find it was Dick 
Harlan. I am not sure whether he said he played 
golf on Sunday, but I am sure he said he played golf. 

If it were not for the fact that Paul van Dyke is 
so well known — being a large part of the University 
— I should like to throw some side lights on his 
character as a bachelor host. His success in that 
capacity has been so great that I fear it has perma- 
nently weakened his matrimonial inclinations. 



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THE CLASS-CUP BOY 




AGED SIXTEEN MONTHS. 



AGED SIXTEEN YEARS. 



T. H. POWERS FARR, JR. 

" Hould 'im up! 

Joy, joy ! 
Hould 'im up ! 

Is that the Boy ? 
Hould 'im up!" 

The Class Boy was born February 21, 1884. 
He is now a fifth-former at Groton School, Groton, 
Mass., and expects to enter Princeton in 1903, — 
Class of '07. 



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PLINY FISK 

•*Some for the Glories of this World ; and some 
Sigh for the Prophet's Paradise to come ; 

Ah, take the Cash, and let the credit go. 
Nor heed the rumble of a distant Drum ! " 

I. I reside in New York, My business address 
is 29 Nassau Street. 

1. I am a member of the firm of Harvey Fisk & 
Sons, bankers. 

3. I was married on October 4, 1882, at Wood- 
stock, Vt., to Mary L. Chapman. I have two 
daughters, viz., Edith C. and Dorothy, seventeen 
and fourteen years of age. 

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PERSONAL BIOGRAPHIES OF '81 

4. I am the senior member of my firm, which is 
the greatest honor I have attained. 

5. I am a Republican in politics, and a Presbyterian 
in my religious faith. I am a member of the follow- 
ing New York clubs : The Metropolitan, University, 
Union League, New York Yacht Club, Riding Club, 
Suburban Riding and Driving, Westchester Country 
Club, Lawyers' Club and Princeton Club ; and, in 
Philadelphia, the Rittenhouse Club. 

6. 1 hope to attend the Class Reunion next June. 

WARREN J. FLICK 

" Who yet in youth, the whiles 
Abandoned, did his steadfast course pursue." 

I practised my profession [Flick is a Civil and 
Mining Engineer], in various capacities, for the first 
ten years after leaving college. Then, through my 
father's death and a combination of circumstances, I 
was forced to settle down in Southern California. 
I escaped in the spring of 1897, went to Chicago, 
and, having done some pretty smooth work in rail- 
roading, got back into the harness again. 1 worked 
pretty hard at the business, and, " getting in with 
the gang," was slated as general manager of the 
Chicago, Bluffton and Cincinnati R. R. While 
waiting for the completion of some of the inevitable 
red tape connected with such work, I drifted down 
here [Versailles, Mo.] for the purpose of looking at 

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AFTER TWENTY YEARS 

some property I had acquired. I became interested 
in mining for zinc and lead, and have now been 
here for a year. As, from the present outlook, I 




am going to make a pretty good thing out of it, I 
mean to stick here for another year or more. 

I was married on September 25, 1900, at the 
home of her parents. Captain and Mrs. Joseph In- 
gall Sterne, to their daughter, Dixie Lee Sterne, in 
Columbia, Mo. 

I am still a stalwart Republican in politics, and 
now, more than ever. Have not joined any church. 
Have devoted a good deal of time to Freemasonry, 
and try to live up to its teachings. I belong to the 

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PERSONAL BIOGRAPHIES OF '81 

University Club of Philadelphia, but very seldom 
get there, so I never have the chance to see any of 
our classmates. I hope to be in Princeton for the 
Reunion, and see the boys. 

My address is always Wilkes-Barre, Pa., and let- 
ters will be forwarded wherever I am. 




WILLIS FOWLER 

** Age sits with decent grace upon his visage. 
And worthily becomes his silver locks." 

There is little that I can write for our new Class 
Record, for my particular history of the first ten 

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AFTER TWENTY YEARS 

years after graduation has about repeated itself in 
the second ten. 

Since the latter part of 1887, I have been residing 
in New York, where I have been practising my pro- 
fession of patent law. I am still unmarried, and 
have not held any public or political office ; in fact 
I have done nothing noteworthy. 

In politics I am a Democrat, but am getting tired 
of voting the Republican ticket. As to clubs, I am 
a member of the University, the Princeton, and the 
Reform Clubs, and am a member of the Bar Asso- 
ciation of this city. 

I surely expect to attend our Class Reunion at 
Princeton in June, and hope to see many of the 
fellows there. 



GEORGE C. FROST 

My residence is No. 258 Mount Hope Avenue, 
Rochester, N. Y. 

After leaving college, in order to get a little prac- 
tical education I went into the employ of John W. 
McFarlane, bookseller, Detroit, Mich., where my 
parents lived. I was one year in his employ, and 
then went to the Theological Seminary at Princeton, 
graduating in 1885. In the fall of that year, I was 
called to the Presbyterian Church in Three Rivers, 
Mich., where I remained until the fall of 1891. 
While there, I was married to Miss Claudia Ben- 

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PERSONAL BIOGRAPHIES OF '81 

nett, July 25, 1888. On leaving Three Rivers, I 
came to Honeoye Falls, N. Y., having received a 
call from the church in that place. I remained until 




the fall of 1896. While I was in Three Rivers a 
little boy was born, George Antes Frost. He died 
just after I left Honeoye Falls. During the sum- 
mer of 1897, I supplied the pulpit of the First 
Presbyterian Church of Middletown, N. Y. I was 
then called to Calvary Presbyterian Church, Roches- 
ter, N. Y., where I am now located as pastor. On 
January 30, 1900, a little girl was born, Elizabeth 
Claudia Frost. 

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AFTER TWENTY YEARS 

My literary efforts have been confined to the pul- 
pit, with an occasional contribution to the papers. 
My politics at present, as indicated by my recent 
vote, are Republican, though I was brought up a 
Democrat and voted the Democratic ticket until 
Bryan came into the field. 

I am hoping to be present at the Class Reunion 
in June. 

I have seen very few of the class since graduation. 
Harlan, whom I see every week, is known among 
the " brethren " of Rochester as " The Bishop of 
Third Church." When he rides the wheel, the title 
is changed to " The Bishop of Third Church and 
Steeple." 

EDWARD GILDER 

Gilder joined the class in the beginning of Sopho- 
more year, remaining with it only four months. 
He afterward engaged in the commission dry-goods 
business with a house in New York City, where his 
home was. He died on December 21, 1890. 



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CHARLES R. GILL 

*'He's an absent-minded beggar, and his weaknesses are great. 
But we and Mac must take him as we find him. 
He is out on active service, wiping something off a slate. 
Though we made him leave his class report behind him." 
— With Apologies to Kipling, 

Gill was a difficult fish to land, and your commit- 
tee feels a modest pride in displaying its catch here- 
with. He writes : 

Dear Dix : 

If there is any reward for perseverance in '8i's 
treasury, then you and Alex. Hudnut ought to be 

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AFTER TWENTY YEARS 

well repaid. I have received your touching appeals, 
and will no longer put you off, like my repentance, 
for " a more convenient season." You say that each 
of the other fellows will read of my doings with the 
same interest with which I read of his. You are 
diplomatic. I will do my duty. A short account 
of my wanderings is as follows : 

I graduated in medicine in 1884, at the College 
of Physicians and Surgeons (Columbia), New York 
City. I practised my profession for some years in 
New York, until I contracted the Western fever, 
when I went West to Seattle and Bellingham Bay, 
Wash., and invested in real estate, etc., remaining 
there several years. I then returned to New York, 
and resumed the practice of medicine there. 

At the breaking out of the Spanish War I was 
appointed by the American National Red Cross 
Society its Field Agent, and was sent to Camp 
Thomas, Chickamauga, Ga. I met Stuart Brown 
there, doing his duty in an Illinois regiment. Re- 
maining there a sufficient time to organize the work 
and turn it over to my successor, I pushed on to 
Tampa and Santiago. After the fall of Santiago my 
duties were mainly among the Cubans^ relieving 
their distressful conditions. The Red Cross estab- 
lished a large dispensary and supply depot. The 
city was districted, and the sick, the needy and suf- 
fering people were regularly attended to. This 
comprised nearly the entire population. 

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PERSONAL BIOGRAPHIES OF '81 

I led a relief expedition into Santiago province. 
A full description of this venturesome expedition 
will be found in Scribners Magazine for February, 
1899. The relief work in Santiago being nearly 
accomplished, and hearing that the port of Havana 
would be soon opened. Miss Clara Barton, with 
most of her staff, embarked aboard the United States 
steamship Clinton, which our Government had 
placed at the service of the Red Cross. Ours was 
the first American ship to enter the port of Havana 
after the Santiago surrender, and the only one there 
for several weeks or until the Comal arrived. Cap- 
tain-General Blanco received us fiercely ; he said : 
*' I have not surrendered, I have two hundred thou- 
sand men here, and I do not intend to surrender. 
There is no distress here but that I am able to 
take care of, and you had better get out." We did 
not oblige him at once, but remained in the harbor, 
hoping to be allowed to land our cargo and relieve 
the greaf distress existing there. This was denied 
to us, as well as to the Comal. We were practically 
prisoners, and as we could do nothing and had no 
way of communicating with our Government, we 
decided to run over to Key West. Leaving our 
anchorage near the poor old Maine, we passed out 
under the guns of Morro Castle, and I think that 
we all breathed easier after we reached the open sea. 

In February I returned to Cuba as Acting Assist- 
ant Surgeon, United States Army, and was sta- 

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AFTER TWENTY YEARS 

tioned at Matanzas in the Military District Hospi- 
tal, and later detailed to inspect the city of Cardenas 
and put it in sanitary order. At the completion of 
this work I returned to Matanzas, and was stricken 
with typhoid fever, nearly losing my life. Invalided 
home, placed on temporary duty at Fort Hamilton, 
New York Harbor, November, 1899. Sent to take 
medical charge of Fort Trumbull, New London, 
Conn.; remaining there until ordered to this post — 
Fort Wood, Liberty Island, New York Harbor — 
in a similar capacity last June. 

In reply to your numerous questions, excuse me 
if I reply referring to them by number : 

I. United States Army; residence, anywhere be- 
tween here and the antipodes. Letters addressed 
to Care of J. M. French (Cuyler, Morgan & Co.)> 
44 Pine Street, New York, will be forwarded to me. 

1. Physician. 

3. Married, October 25, 1887, to Clara Devoe 
Gardner, Catskill, N. Y. Five children, two of 
whom are dead. 

4. Politics, independent ; religion, Presbyterian. 

5. I will certainly attend the Class Reunion in 
June, if I am in this country. 

Gill subsequently writes : 

" I have just received an appointment from the 
President as Captain and Assistant Surgeon [Assist- 
ant Surgeon of Volunteers, with the rank of Cap- 
tain. — Eds.] and will be sent to Manila. So I 

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cannot have the pleasure of the reunion in June. I 
regret not to be able to meet the dear boys of '8i, 
and you must remember me very kindly to them. 




FRANK GLEDHILL 

** 'E 'as n't got no papers of 'is own ; 
'E 'as n't got no medals nor rewards." 

I wish it had been my good fortune to have ac- 
complished something out of the ordinary — some- 
thing that would have brought great renown to our 
class ; but I have not had more than is accorded to 
the average, and with a brief outline of my unevent- 

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AFTER TWENTY YEARS 

ful career since we parted, the class will have to be 
content. 

My residence, during the past ten years, has been 
at 429 Park Avenue, and my business address. First 
National Bank Building, Paterson, N. J. In due 
course of time, after having left Princeton, I was ad- 
mitted to the bar of New Jersey, and have been 
practising ever since. Politics, to a limited extent, 
occupied my time and attention, and for a short 
term I was a member of the Board of Education in 
this city. In '93 and '94 my political aspirations 
landed me in the New Jersey House of Assembly, 
as one of the Republican representatives from this 
county. 

Business, not poHtics, since then has occupied my 
time, and upon the organization of one of our local 
trust companies, named in honor of Alexander 
Hamilton, I was selected to fill the position of Act- 
ing Vice-President, which position I still occupy. 
As has been indicated above, my political affiliations 
have been and still are with the Republican Party. 

The Hamilton Club of Paterson and the North 
Jersey Country Club are the only social organiza- 
tions to which I belong. 

My marriage took place in Fruit Vale, a suburb 
of Oakland, CaL, to Miss Florence E. Perine, on 
August 16, 1888. My only child, a son named 
William Gledhill, was born June 20, 1889, and died 
September 20, 1889. 

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Unless something or somebody prevents me, I 
shall participate in '8i's celebration in June. 




CHARLES N. GOSMAN 

I am in the assaying business, associated with Mr. 
John R. Bapty, at 119 Hamilton Street, Butte, 
Mont. Since leaving college, except for a few years 
in the East in the banking business, I have been 
largely identified with the mining business in Mon- 
tana. For several years I was chief accountant 
for the Butte and Boston Consolidated Mining 

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AFTER TWENTY YEARS 

Company, and am now trying some mining on my 
own account. 

I was married on September 21, 1897, to Miss 
Charlotte E. Murphy. The ceremony was per- 
formed at Billings, Mont., under the ritual of the 
Episcopal Church, with which church we are to some 
extent affiliated. We have no children. 

I am a Republican. I am a member of the Over- 
land Club of Butte. I am a member of the Benev- 
olent and Protective Order of Elks, and have served 
for four years as secretary of Silver Bow Lodge, No. 
240, of that order. 

I am afraid I shall be unable to attend the Re- 
union in June, though I should much like to be 
there. 

I see Cowan quite often ; he is doing very well, 
I think, in the mining business. 

And now, having answered your queries, I want 
to say that I have been quite negligent of my class 
duties in the past, but hope to keep in touch with 
the boys better in the future. I don't drink, have a 
happy and pleasant home, and am trying to lay up a 
little of the worldly goods. 

Dominie has gone into politics a little, and at one 
time was City Clerk of Butte. His connection with 
the Order of Elks, to which he so unobtrusively 
alludes, is one of a good deal of prominence. Cowan 
writes : " What his official cog. is I can't say, but 

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at a meeting a short time ago he was elected to the 
highest office for the State. He is fat and jolly, and 
seems to enjoy the world as he is passing through." 




JACOB ROSS GROVE 

*'Thou indeed mayest live much to thy ease and satisfaction with 
philosophy." 

1. Address, York, Pa. 

2. No occupation at present. Circumstances have 
restricted my activities, to an extent, for many years. 
Have spent most of my time in philosophical re- 
search, which, I find, resembles virtue, at least to the 

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AFTER TWENTY YEARS 

extent of being its own reward. I haven't written 
anything for publication, although I admit that I 
hope to do so some time in the remote future. 

3. Am single. 

4. Haven't " held any position of honor or trust, 
or done any other noteworthy thing." 

5. Voted for McKinley, very reluctantly, as an 
unwelcome choice of evils. Belong to no clubs or 
societies. As to religion, I am, nominally, a Presby- 
terian, although I find myself unable to accept any 
of the distinctively Presbyterian dogmas. 

6. Hope to attend the Class Reunion. 

ALFRED GUILLOU 

'81 was too good for Guillou, and he descended 
upward into '80. Afterward he studied theology, 
first entering the West Philadelphia Divinity School, 
then going to the Yale Theological Seminary. 
Differences arose with his ecclesiastical superiors, — 
perhaps they objected to exegetical puns, — and he 
was obliged to give up the ministry as a profession. 
He then took up the study of the law. He gradu- 
ated from the U. of P. Law School in 1886, and 
practised law in Philadelphia for two years. In 1887 
he married Emma Barton Brewster, of Philadelphia, 
and has three children, — two sons and a daughter. 
In '88 he went to California, and took a ranch near 
Hueneme, in Ventura County, where he still is. 

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Now all the rest of the words of Guillou, and the 
things which he did, are they not writ large in the 
Book of the Chronicles of the Class of '80 ? 




ROBERT HADDOW 

Having left Princeton at the end of my Fresh- 
man year, in 1878, I came up that fall to Toronto, 
and passed my second year in Toronto University. 
Then I remained at home [at Dalhousie, N. B. — 
Eds.] for a year ; my father was in Parliament, and 
I was helping to look after his business. 1 returned 

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AFTER TWENTY YEARS 

to Toronto in the fall of 1880, and graduated there 
in '82, with first-class honors in Mental and Moral 
Science and Civil Polity. I am thankful to say that 
I studied philosophy under George Paxton Young 
(since dead), one of the greatest philosophers and 
one of the best teachers of the century. 

After graduation 1 taught for a year in a High 
School in Cayuga, Ont. In the fall of 1883 I 
returned to Toronto and began the study of the- 
ology in Knox College. I graduated there in 1886. 
In my last year 1 was president of the glee club, 
vice-president of the football club, and editor-in- 
chief of the college journal, the Knox College 
Monthly. (Perhaps I should have said that in my 
last year at the University 1 took part in the pro- 
duction of " Antigone " — the first production in 
Canada, and, I think, the second in America. I 
took the part of the Watchman.) 

In the spring of 1886 I was ordained in St. John, 
N. B., and spent a year at Home Mission work, as 
ordained missionary, in my native province. 

At the end of that year, the members of the 
Quintette went off together to Scotland. When 
passing through New York at that time, I had the 
pleasure of seeing Fisk, Hudnut, and Farr of '81. 
We spent that winter in Edinburgh, did some study, 
and saw a good deal of social life, especially in musi- 
cal circles. While in Scotland, on a trip through 
the West Highlands, I met Henry Scribner (now 

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Professor Scribner, I believe), of '8i. The follow- 
ing summer, we made a bicycle tour on the Continent, 
visiting Belgium, Germany, Switzerland and France. 

On my return to Canada in the fall of '88, I was 
called to the Presbyterian Church in Milton, Ont., 
and here I remained for seven very happy years. 
While in Milton I edited for a year (and another 
year after I left) the Knox College Monthly, which 
had now become a sort of theological review and 
the organ of the Alumni Association of Knox Col- 
lege. In 1893 ^ married a young lady in my con- 
gregation. Miss Eleanor Caldwell, daughter of 
William Caldwell, Esq., of Milton. We have three 
children: George Caldwell, born August, 1894; 
William Robert, born March, 1897; Marion, born 
October, 1898. 

In 1895 I resigned my charge in Milton. I came 
to Toronto and took a year of special study, at- 
tending lectures at Toronto University and Knox 
College. In 1897 I was called to Watford, Ont. 
While there I received the degree of B.D., upon 
examination, from Knox College. (Perhaps I 
should explain that Knox College stands to Toronto 
University in the same relation that Princeton Sem- 
inary stands to the University there, except that our 
theological college has the power to grant degrees in 
divinity.) I am now a member of the senate of this 
college, and this year an examiner for the same de- 
gree of B.D. While I was in Watford, also, I was 

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comciKM' ot the I Kmiic Missumi Ci^ininirrcc ot the 
Presbvtcrv, luul did ;i good deal ot genend church 
work ill addition to the wcM-k ot niv congregation. 
1 wrote a somewhat ehihorate article on " The l\e- 
Hgious Life of l\ngland in the Kighteenth Century," 
which was read at a theological conterence in 
I'oronto in 1900. 

About four months ago, in November, 1900, I 
was called from Wattord to be associate editor ot 
The irestm:nstc-)\t\\c leading Presbyterian journal ot 
the Dominion. As mv throat had given me some 
tremble for the last year or two oi my ministry, it is 
altogether likely that the remainder of my lite will 
be devoted to religious journalisni. 

I ha\e li\ed a \erv happ\', busy, and not alto- 
gether useless life, but I ha\e never tound u way to 
make any money and nexer expect to, and don't 
care. 

It would be a great delight tor me to attend the 
Class Reunion in June, but 1 am pretty certain that 
it will be impossible for me to get away. 1 only 
hope something may turn up to make it possible. 

My permanent address is, Office of The IJ'est- 
minstery Toronto, Ont. 



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EDWARD P. T. HAMMOND 

Hammond is having a varied and interesting ca- 
reer. His home was in Berlin, Md. He first took 
up law, studying at the University of Virginia, and in 
1883 commencing practice in Snow Hill, Worcester 
County, Md. In February, 1884, he made an ex- 
tensive trip in Florida, and was so impressed with 
" this growing and prosperous State, the land of 
the orange-tree and Italy of America," as he put it, 
that he determined to make it his home, and se- 
lected Gainesville, as " centrally located and one of 
the handsomest towns in the State," and the one 
eventually to be the capital. The United States 
Land-Office was situated in Gainesville, and here 
Hammond went into contested land cases and con- 
templated a general practice. 

Evidently the Florida metropolis did not progress 
toward capitalship as rapidly as he had hoped, for 
soon after we find him again at Snow Hill and re- 
opening his office there. Matrimony had not 
tempted him, and he was single. 

The fourth period is known as the Hungarian 
period. On January 6, 1892, Hammond was ap- 
pointed United States Consul at Budapest, and 
immediately went abroad and entered upon his du- 
ties. His statistics give the population of Buda- 
pest as 600,000, and of the whole of Hungary as 

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AFTER TWENTY YEARS 

1,800,000; and he was the only American consul 
for them all. 

On leaving the Huns, he went to London, and 
since 1897 has made that city his home. He has 
an office with Edwards & Co., a firm of brokers, at 
No. 5 Arundel Street (Dacre House), Strand. He 
frequently has business on the Continent, which 
takes him across the " silver streak." He is still 
unmarried, and is a Republican and an Episcopalian. 

Hammond has not been in this country since he 
went to Budapest, nine years ago ; but his brother, 
Dr. Thomas V. Hammond, of Washington, writes 
that his father, who is still living in Berlin, Md., is 
in ill-health, and that E. P. T. is shortly expected 
home and may be here in time to attend the Reunion. 



RICHARD DAVENPORT HARLAN 

** In short, so provoking a devil was Dick 

That we wished him full ten times a day at Old Nick ; 

But missing his mirth and agreeable vein, 

As often we wished to have Dick back again," 

After graduation, I took a position in the legal 
division of the Post-Office Department in Washing- 
ton ; but, receiving an attractive offer to do some 
private tutoring work, I returned to Princeton in 
January, 1882, taking some post-graduate studies 
in the college at the same time. In September, 
1882, I entered the Seminary, and was graduated in 

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1885. After a post-graduate year in theology, I 
was called to the pastorate of the First Presbyterian 
Church in New York City, where I was ordained 
and installed on April i, 1886. 




In 1888, Paul van Dyke, then pastor of a church 
in Geneva, N. Y., invited me to spend at least a 
part of my summer vacation with him, helping him 
in his work. (He had not been well.) Verily, I 
had my reward , for Paul, being a good judge in 
such matters, introduced me to my wife, Mrs. Mar- 
garet Prouty Swift, whom I had never met before. 
We were married on June 5, 1889. 

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AFTER TWENTY YEARS 

In November, 1890, I resigned my charge in 
New York. Mrs. Harlan's health not being good, 
1 determined to carry out a long-cherished plan of 
pursuing some special studies at the University of 
Berlin. Accordingly, I sailed for Deutschland in 
December, 1890, intending to spend eighteen 
months at the University; but in June, 1891, I 
was summoned back to this country by what proved 
to be the fatal illness of my father-in-law. Shortly 
afterward, Mrs. Harlan herself suffered from a long 
and serious attack of illness. In the hope of restor- 
ing her health, I went, in February, 1892, to the 
Mediterranean, visiting Spain, Tangier, Algiers, Tu- 
nis, Sicily and Italy. In August, 1892, leaving my 
wife on the other side, I returned to this country on 
important business matters, taking passage on the 
steamship Normannia on her famous cholera trip, 
and was therefore caught in quarantine in New York 
Harbor for two weeks, and took part in the battle(?) 
of Fire Island. 

In December, 1892, I returned to Europe and 
spent the winter in Paris, witnessing the opening 
sessions of the Bering Sea Tribunal of Arbitration, 
of which my father was a member. Mrs. Harlan's 
health being restored, I returned to this country in 
May, 1893, only to be stricken myself, in June of 
that year, with typhoid fever, from which I did not 
fully recover until the following spring. 

In the winter of 1893-94, I took Paul van Dyke 
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into the Canada woods north of Three Rivers, to 
teach him how to hunt big game. Finding some 
mysterious tracks in the snow, he spent two hours 
in a most stealthy and carefully planned approach to 
the supposed hiding-place of the caribou. When 
he got there, he discovered they were only rab- 
bits ! But then, what would you expect of a duffer 
Hke him who, on a recent historic duck-hunt, allowed 
one distinguished member of his party to bring 
down seventy-six out of a total bag of seventy-nine 
ducks? Whether Paul got even one of the other 
three has not yet been divulged. 




Third Presbyterian Church of Rochester. 
Rev. Richard D. Harlan, Pastor. 

In June, 1894, I was called to the Third Presby- 
terian Church of Rochester, entering upon my work 
in the following September, and I have been there 
ever since. 

I have no children. 

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AFTER TWENTY YEARS 

Under present conditions, I am a Republican ; 
but, a strong sub-stratum of mugwumpery and a 
tendency to free trade, a new alignment of parties, 
when silver and other isms are dead, might easily 
make me a political heretic once more. 

I am a member of the Princeton and University 
Clubs in New York City, and of the Genesee Valley 
and County Clubs of Rochester, and also of the 
Loyal Legion. 

I expect to be at the Reunion. 

S. GRAEME HARRISON 

•* It's a very good world to live in. 
To lend or to spend or to give in." 

English Club, Pau, France. 

My life has been an uneventful, if not altogether 
an unpleasant one. My home is Easthorpe House, 
Ruddington, in the County of Nottingham, Eng- 
land, and I have spent my winters at Pau, in France, 
for the last ten years. I was married at Thomas- 
ville, Ga., on March 17, 1888, to the widow of the 
late F. A. Marquand, of New York. I have had 
three children, viz., Graeme, born at Lausanne, 
Switzerland, April 3, 1889; Randolph, born at 
Leamington, England, May 31, 1892, and Ellen, 
born at Pau, November 30, 1893, — of whom Ran- 
dolph died as a baby. 

I have no business or profession, and have certain- 
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PERSONAL BIOGRAPHIES OF '81 

ly done nothing noteworthy. I am a Tory in politics, 
and a member of the Church of England. I am a 
member of many clubs in England and France. 

I regret that I shall be unable to attend the Class 
Reunion. Best wishes to the members of the Class 
of 1881 ! 

Cauldwell, in his report, tells of a narrow escape 
from death in 1881, when Harrison and he were 
wrecked, off the Irish coast. They were saved by 
the life-boats. He adds : " Harrison behaved gal- 
lantly, as we would expect, and declined to leave the 
sinking ship until every woman had been safely 
taken off." 



DAVID ADAMS HAYNES 

Died of peritonitis, in New York City, December 
8, 1890, in the thirty-first year of his age. 

Haynes was born in June, i860, at Harrisburg, 
Pa., and received his early education In Washington, 
D. C. In college he rose rapidly to high rank, and 
in addition was widely interested in all the activities 
of student life. After graduation, he studied law in 
the office of Shellabarger & Wilson, Washington, at 
the same time attending the Law School of the Co- 
lumbian University in that city, obtaining the de- 
gree of LL.B. On September 15, 1883, he came to 
New York to practice — " after much thought and not 

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AFTER TWENTY YEARS 

without some fear," he wrote ; and after serving a 
year's apprenticeship as clerk in the office of Mr. 
Crammond Kennedy, he began practice for himself, 




and became a member of the firm of Morse, Haynes 
& Wensley, at lo Wall Street. Here his legal ability 
and his aptitude as a special pleader, coupled with 
his marked oratorical power, soon brought him into 
prominence, and success steadily followed his work. 
In 1884 he was selected by the Princeton Faculty 
to deliver the Master's Oration for the class, receiv- 
ing at that time the Master's degree. He was also 
President of the class. In New York he served a 

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term in the Excise Board, was actively interested in 
church work, and was a member of the University 
Club. He was not married or engaged, but had 
acquired a wide circle of friends and acquaintances. 

Haynes's last illness was a very brief one. On 
Friday, December 5, he was at his office, but went 
home early ; on Saturday his symptoms became 
alarming, and on Sunday it was decided that the 
trouble was peritonitis and that an immediate oper- 
ation was necessary. After this was performed it 
became apparent that there was no hope, and death 
followed at one o'clock on Monday, December 8th. 

The Decennial justly says : " Probably the death 
of no one of its members could have been felt more 
keenly by the class. Both as a man and as the rec- 
ognized official head of the class, Haynes was in a 
double sense representative. Socially he filled a 
place in all the various sets into which a class natu- 
rally divides ; intellectually he showed, more perhaps 
than any other member, the stimulating and bene- 
ficial results of college training, and it was in recog- 
nition of this fact that he was elected to deliver the 
Master's Oration. His character was a rare combi- 
nation of gentleness and strength, a high type of 
Christian manhood pervaded by true religious feel- 
ing, yet entirely free from cant, — a character that 
won the respect of all." 



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JAMES S. HILLHOUSE 

" Of prastcs \vc can offer a thamiin' variety, 
Widclv renowned for larnin' an' pictv ; 
Still, I 'd advance ye, widout impropriety, 
Father O'Flynn as tlie flower of them all." 

The twenty years ot my life since leaving college 
are to be accounted for as follows : Three as a 
student (so-called) at the Theological Seminary in 
Princeton ; two as a Presbyterian preacher at Ring- 
gold, Ga.; seven at Cartersville, Ga,, and eight here 
at Vicksburg, Miss. I confidently expected by this 
time to have done something worthy of a place in 

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the Record, but I have either failed or neglected to 
do so. The truth is, the years have been a little 
too fast for me. I have made no invention or dis- 
covery, which is a pity ; I have written no book, 
which is an honor ; I have received no degree, 
which is a shame. 

I am a Democrat. I say Democrat, because the 
last vote that I cast was for old Grover ; but I have 
not been running with the party much of late, be- 
cause it seems to be a little " blind as to its eyes " 
and " lame as to its legs." 

I was married at Calhoun, Ga., on March i, 
1888. My wife's maiden name was Belle Boaz. 
We have three children, viz., Walter Boaz, born 
January 29, 1889; Joseph Newton, born January 
2,5, 1 89 1, and Nida, born December 24, 1892. 
That is all that there is to tell about myself, and I 
have not time to tell about my wife and children. 

I am afraid that I will not be able to attend the Re- 
union. 

JOSEPH D. HUBBARD 

*' Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nature rousing 
herself like a strong man after sleep." 

Joe frantically but mistakenly seeks to atone for 
atrocious procrastination by profuse contrition. 
(This is an error common to not a few in the class.) 
He writes as follows : 

You have heard of that resort said to be paved 
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AFTER TWENTY YEARS 

with good intentions; and Chicago has been like 
unto it since receiving your hist appeal urging me to 
" confess." 

The truth is, 1 have been shockingly busy the 




past two months. My desk is loaded with unfin- 
ished tasks, and I have repeatedly attempted this 
one, only to be called to something more imperative. 
Pray accept my apologies, and with them this brief 
but pathetic record of a misspent lite. 

The practice of law was interrupted three years 
ago by a severe illness, and 1 was compelled, by 
reason thereof, to spend a winter in California, and 

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another year in general travel. Since my return I 
have not resumed general practice, but have devoted 
myself to matters suggested partly by my tastes and 
partly by business interests which had developed 
during the past ten years. No change has occurred 
in my domestic affairs since we reported in 1891 ; 
that is to say, I am still married, have no children 
living, and continue to be a resident of the so-called 
" Windy City." 

As to the appalling list of possibilities contained 
in paragraph 4 of the interrogatories, I can only say 
I have done a little, a very little, of some of those 
things, but not enough of any to justify explicit 
reference to them. 

As to politics and religion, they both seem to 
be drifting to a point where an " independent " 
attitude is the only one possible for a rational 
being. 

I still cling to the New York University Club, 
the Chicago University Club, the Onwentsia Coun- 
try Club, and other minor organizations. 

Yes, I do expect to attend the Class Reunion in 
June, whether the walking be good or not, and 
hope every other man of the class feels the same 
way and will get there somehow. 

Unfortunately, I know little about our men, and 
see less of them. Skinner is here in Chicago, but I 
have seen him only once or twice in some years. 
Stuart Brown comes up occasionally from Springfield 

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AFTER TWENTY YEARS 

to attend a Princeton banquet, but 1 can give no in- 
formation about anyone not already known to most 
of the other men. 




ALEXANDER M. HUDNUT 

" The devil was piqued, sucli saintship to behold. 
And longed to tempt him, like good Job of old ; 
But Satan now is wiser than of yore. 
And tempts by making rich, not making poor." 

Since graduation I have lived in New York City. 
My residence is at 51 West Thirty-ninth Street, 
and my business address is 1 1 Wall Street. 

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On October i, 1891, I formed a co-partnership 
with Mr. R. T. H. Halsey, of the Class of '86, 
under the firm name of Halsey & Hudnut. We 
are brokers and dealers in investment bonds. Hal- 
sey is a member of the New York Stock Exchange. 

I have been very closely confined to my work 
during this period, and have not wandered far from 
Manhattan Island, either on pleasure or business. I 
sometimes make trips to neighboring golf courses 
and get a day's outing on the links. 

In the summer I live with my parents at Allen- 
hurst, N. J., — a settlement on the New Jersey coast 
where we have a summer home, — and commute be- 
tween there and New York every day. We still 
retain our old home in Princeton, and I go out there 
frequently to spend Sundays during the winter and 
in the spring and fall. [Aleck is breaking ground 
for a new house in Princeton, in the vicinity of ex- 
President Cleveland's home.] 

I am neither married nor engaged at the present 
writing. Ed. Dix tells me I am old enough to get 
married,* and I am beginning to think he is about 
right on that point. 

In politics I am a sound-money man and have 
been voting the Republican ticket the last two na- 
tional elections. Prior to that time I was a Demo- 
crat, but I have no sympathy with Bryan Democracy 
and will never support any party which affiliates 
with free-silverites or populists. 

* I never said so. What's forty ! — E. A. D. 
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AFTER TWENTY YEARS 

I am a Presbyterian, but at present I attend the 
Collegiate Church at Twenty-ninth Street and Fifth 
Avenue. 

I belong to the following clubs : 

The University Club. 

The Grolier Club. 

The Reform Club. 

The Princeton Club. 

The Quill Club. 

The Nassau Country Club. 

The Deal Golf Club. 

The Nassau Club of Princeton. 
I am also a member of the Chamber of Commerce 
of New York. 

During the past year I have written to every 
member of our class and have heard from most of 
the men ; and it has been a very gratifying expe- 
rience to note the almost universal interest and loy- 
alty of our men for the good old Class of '8 1 . The 
men are doing well, and, so far as I can judge, a fair 
share of success has come to them. 

Aleck is one of the most popular men in the class, 
and the friendly comments upon him in the fellows' 
letters to the others of the committee have been too 
numerous to record. He is too diffident to touch 
on his marked business success in the country's 
financial centre, but it merits much more than this 
brief allusion. — 3^ Eds. 

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R. H. HUTCHINS 

After Hutchins left college, " on that memorable 
fourteenth day of February, 1878," he took up the 
study of medicine. He settled in Wilkesbarre, Pa., 
and became resident physician of the City Hospital 
there. Subsequently he went to Pittsburg, Pa., 
where he is still engaged in the practice of his pro- 
fession. He was married on September 26, 1883, 
to Miss Helen M. Atherton, of Wyoming, Pa. 
They have no children. 

In reply to the question whether he has held any 
public or political offices, positions of honor or trust, 
business directorships, military rank, etc. ; written 
books or articles, made an invention or discovery, 
obtained a degree, or done any other noteworthy 
thing which should be chronicled in the Record — 
Hutchins sends a laconic " No." He is a Democrat 
and a Presbyterian, and belongs to the Luzerne and 
Lackawanna Counties' Princeton Alumni Associa- 
tion. 

WILLIAM INGHAM 

After graduation, Ingham went into business in 
New York, but, left in the following spring. He 
made a trip abroad, and in June, 1882, went into the 
coal commission business in Philadelphia, in which 
he continued for a number of years. He has since 
been very ill, and has been travelling for his health. 
He is not married. 




PHILIP NYE JACKSON 

*' If you would live at your ease, manage but a few things." 

— Democritus. 

My present residence is No. 15 Waverly Place, 
Newark, N. J., and my business address is No. 209 
Market Street. 

On graduating in 1881, I commenced the study 
of law, attending lectures at the Columbia Law 
School, and reading here in Newark in the office of 
my uncle," Hon, Schuyler B. Jackson. At the end 
of the year, I concluded to go into business, and 
after looking up various lines of occupation, had an 

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opportunity of becoming connected with the Newark 
Electric Light and Power Company as Assistant 
Secretary. Since then electric lighting has been my 
chief occupation, and whatever else I have been in, 
I have always retained a connection with this line of 
business. From time to time I held the offices of 
Secretary, Treasurer, General Manager and Vice- 
President of the Newark Electric Light and Power 
Company, and upon its absorption in 1895 ^7 ^^^ 
People's Light and Power Company, I became the 
President of the latter company until it in turn was 
absorbed by the United Electric Company of New 
Jersey, of which I am the Third Vice-President. 

Incidentally I have been interested largely in real 
estate, and in from thirty-five to forty corporations, 
mostly electric light, gas, water, and various manu- 
facturing enterprises. 

On November 5, 1 884, 1 was married in St. Luke's 
Church, Germantown, Pa., to Miss Margaret Atlee, 
of Philadelphia. We have six children, — Nannie 
Nye Jackson, born in Newark, August 11, 1885; 
Edith Atlee Jackson, born in Newark, October 6, 
1886; Frederick Wolcott Jackson, 3d, born in 
Newark, February 20, 1888 ; Margaret Atlee Jack- 
son, born in Newark, November 11, 1890; Philip 
Nye Jackson, Jr., born in Newark, May 15, 1898 ; 
and Schuyler BrinckerhofF Jackson, born at Ber- 
nardsville, N. J., August 18, 1900. 

I have never held any political office, and have 
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AFTER TWENTY YEARS 

not been especially active in politics outside of serv- 
ing as delegate to several conventions, attending to 
the ordinary duties of primary meetings, and voting 
on election days. 

In a business way I have held a large number of 
official positions, having at various times been a 
director in numerous corporations, and at the present 
time am connected with eight or ten, in seven of 
which 1 hold the position of President. 

Politically I have always been a Republican, and 
at present am a strong McKinley man. 

1 am a member of the Third Presbyterian Church 
of Newark, and am one of the Trustees. 

I have never been much of a club man, although 
I belong to a few, — the University Club of New 
York, the Princeton Club of Newark, the Newark 
Athletic Club and the Garfield Club being all with 
which I am at present connected. I have been the 
President of the Princeton Club of Newark for the 
last four years, and have served on the Executive 
Committee for the last ten years. 

1 have been somewhat interested in benevolent 
organi'/ations, and at the present time am a member 
of the William Street Mission, and a director of the 
Board of the Bureau of Associated Charities. 

I hope to be at the Reunion in June. 

Phil is a very conspicuous figure in Newark. He 
has organized a great many successful adventures 

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there, and has developed electric-light plants in dif- 
ferent parts of the State with success and profit. 
Like the sensible man that he is, now that he is 
comfortably fixed, he is getting more enjoyment out 
of life than formerly, and incidentally showing a 
most decided interest in Princeton. About a year 
and a half ago, as the committee is informed, he 
gave ^5,000 to the University, and he has now sub- 
scribed $25,000 toward the new gymnasium. 

"Jack," writes an admiring classmate, "has got- 
ten to be a great big fellow, and weighs 225 pounds, 
he tells me. He wears the same kind of a smile he 
did years ago, but it has expanded and covers more 
territory." 

JOHN MURRY JORDAN 

Jordan left our class soon after the beginning ot 
Junior year, being " called up highei " into the 
Class of '80. Consequently he, like Guillou, de- 
serves no consideration save as a deserter. He 
studied medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, 
attended lectures in London and Paris, and got 
married He practised medicine in Philadelphia for 
two years, then, relinquishing this profession, became 
a member of the Petroleum Exchange, where, as he 
says, he bucked the market with great success till he 
had no money to buck it more. Later he travelled 
in all parts of the world for E. &. H. T. Anthony, 

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AFTER TWENTY YEARS 

the dealers in photographic supplies, and is now in 
business for himself, publishing illustrated books — 
especially in the line of photographic portfolios of 
well-known places and buildings throughout the 
world. His office is 1433 South Penn Square, and 
his residence, 302 West Chelten Avenue, Philadel- 
phia. For fuller details, reference is made to '8o's 
Record. 

ARTHUR L. KIMBALL 

" His tribe were God Almighty's gentlemen." 

Our Honorable Secretary obtained from Johns 
Hopkins the degree of Ph.D., in June, 1884, and 
was appointed Associate, and later Associate Pro- 
fessor, in Physics, in that University. In May, 
1 891, he was elected Professor of Physics in Am- 
herst College, whose president. Dr. Gates, referred 
to him as " one of the foremost scientific men of 
the country." He accepted the chair, with the 
promise of a new physical laboratory to be begun at 
once. He will now take up the narrative for him- 
self: 

In October, 1891, I began my work in Amherst 
College, where I still remain as Professor of Physics. 
In the fall of 1893 work was begun on a new phys- 
ical laboratory. The planning for this building and 
Its equipment, together with the constant attention 

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that had to be given to the work as it advanced, 
and the regular teaching work to be carried on at 
the same time, gave me all that I could well do. In 




February, 1894, we entered the new building, and 
of course during the remainder of that year the 
work was unusually heavy, involving the organizing 
of the laboratory and its equipment. As a conse- 
quence, I was pretty well run down in health by 
summer, and in the fall found that I was totally un- 
able to do any work. The doctors decided that my 
lungs were affected and advised the Adirondacks or 
Colorado. In the middle of October I left every- 

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AFTER TWENTY YEARS 

thing and went up to Lake Placid. Soon after 
going there I began to improve. 1 was there till 
April, gaining steadily, and during the latter part of 
the time spent a large part of each day tramping 
through the woods. As the snow got deeper I had 
to take to snow-shoes, and these daily tramps and 
rifle-shooting formed my chief occupation. The 
rest and the outdoor life were just what I needed, and 
I came back feeling like a fighting-cock, and have 
kept in good condition ever since. 

My work of teaching is very absorbing, and be- 
tween class work, laboratory work with students, 
designing instruments and apparatus to be con- 
structed in the shop, and my own experimental 
work, not to speak of keeping up with journals and 
current progress, and trying at least to follow the 
developments in applied electricity, I manage to 
keep busy. There is an assistant professor to aid in 
the work, and a mechanician to attend to repairs and 
construction of apparatus in the shop ; besides some 
student assistance. We have a fine laboratory, with 
good general equipment, though in some directions 
we need additional instruments. We are adding all 
the time, however, though the gain is rather slow. 
We are improving our courses and adding to the 
work as we have opportunity. 

I was married, August 25, 1884, to Miss Lucilla 
P. Scribner, of Plainfield, N. J. Our children are : 
Arthur Livingstone, born February 22, 1886; 

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William Scribner, born August 28, 1887; Stanley- 
Fisher, born January 6, 1890, and died the follow- 
ing July; Henry Maxwell, born February 17, 1892, 
and Bradford Fisher, born August 17, 1896. The 
two older boys are now in the High School, and the 
oldest is within an inch of my height. I cannot get 
used to his being so big, and find it hard to realize 
that I shall soon have college boys of my own. I 
am a member of the American Physical Society and 
of the Amherst Country Club, play golf a little, ride 
a bicycle to and from my laboratory whenever the 
weather permits, and enjoy an occasional bicycle ex- 
cursion out among our hills with congenial friends. 

I am a member of a Congregational church. In 
politics I am independent. I would be glad to vote 
the Republican ticket if they would nominate a man 
of backbone and conscience, who would live up to 
his sense of right and justice in spite of the pressure 
of the money-power. I am satisfied that our treat- 
ment of the Filipinos has been unjust and treacher- 
ous, and that the Philippine war was brought about 
by gross mismanagement and lack of tact, to say the 
least, — that it is a wicked, unnecessary war. I be- 
lieve that the islands should have been given inde- 
pendence under our protectorate. 

I fully count on being at the Reunion in June. 



139 




THOMAS DANFORTH KING 

King died at his home in Springfield, O., Decem- 
ber 2;^, 1888, at the age of twentv-nine. 

Atter leaving Princeton, he began the study of 
medicine, and graduated " with distinguished merit" 
from the University of Pennsylvania in 1885. He 
was greatly interested in mission work, and, after 
practising in Springfield for about a year, offered 
himself as a Medical Missionary to the Presbyterian 
Board of Foreign Missions. Before he had been 
assigned to his field, a tumor began to manifest itself 
in the cavity of the right eve, against which all the 

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PERSONAL BIOGRAPHIES OF '81 

efforts of medical skill were of no avail. For the 
last two years of his life he suffered excruciating 
pain, his strength being constantly wasted by the 
disease. 

The Springfield Gazette said of him : "In quiet 
deeds of kindness to the poor, in words of cheer to 
the despondent and struggling, in labors to lead the 
sinful to repentance and salvation, . . . he filled 
his years with usefulness, and scattered blessings 
with lavish hand at every step of his life." 

— Decennial. 



JOHN L. KIRK 

"Some said, 'John, print it ;' others said, ' Not so ; ' 
Some said, * It might do good ; ' others said, ' No.' " 

BUNYAN 

When I left Princeton, 'way back in 1881, I had 
made up my mind to take a fall out of Blackstone, 
but the opportunity of making money in a business 
long established proved too alluring. I joined forces 
with my father, and with him, and afterward as his suc- 
cessor, continued for a number of years in the business 
of brewing pure ales and porter. Later I returned 
to my first love, entered Columbia Law School and 
studied there for one year. During this year arose 
the trouble between President Seth Low and Profes- 
sor Theodore W. Dwight which disrupted the school. 
Together with about a hundred others, I went to the 

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AFTER TWENTY YEARS 

New York Law School, and graduated in 1892. My 
clerkship was served in the office of Stanley, Clarke 
& Smith, at 120 Broadway. I started to practise on 




my own account in February, 1893, in ^^^ same 
building ; and am still there. 

A reference to the Decennial Record will show that 
my answer to the matrimonial question was a fierce 
negative. In me you find a happy exemplification 
of the fact that the unexpected always happens. On 
January 15, 1894, Alice Amy Flemming, the daugh- 
ter of the noted lawyer, was changed into Mrs. John 
L. Kirk, at her home in Jersey City. In this place, 

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PERSONAL BIOGRAPHIES OF '81 

where the Pennsylvania Railroad has its terminus, 
we reside at 82 Grand Street. 

Two children were born to us, — Robert Linton, 
on Christmas, 1895, who died while an infant; and 
Sara Flemming, who still survives, born February 
23, 1900 

I am a member of the Princeton and Twilight 
Clubs, but more especially of the Family Club 
which meets at my house every evening. I have 
connected myself as an active worker with two set- 
tlement clubs of boys, and am striving, by precept 
and example, to increase the number of good citi- 
zens. Though adding no laurels to my Alma 
Mater, I have, I believe, done nothing at which she 
might blush. I am a member of that wing of the 
Democracy which follows the standard of Grover 
Cleveland. The Episcopal Church claims me as an 
active member. 

I have met only a few of our fellows. I saw 
Billy Dodd when he was in this country, and have 
received letters from him. He is ever the same un- 
assuming Billy that he was of yore, and is doing 
work second to no man in the class. Monroe and 
Bacot were ushers at my wedding. McMurdy is a 
successful physician, who has not only given his 
business to me but has brought other clients also. 
W. C. Davis and I occupy offices in the same suite. 
This propinquity warrants me in the assertion that 
Davis smokes better cigars than he did in college days. 

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AFTER TWENTY YEARS 

I expect to attend the Class Reunion, and trust 
that the fellows will recognize me, though I now 
wear both whiskers and spectacles. 

Hudnut writes of Kirk : 

He spent part of his summer a year ago with his 
wife at Allenhurst, N. J., and I used often to see 
him in the swimming-pool. He looks very much 
as he used to look in the old days at college, when 
he was in the front rank at the class rushes in Fresh, 
and Soph, years. He is still fond of athletic 
sports, and makes a very handsome dive from the 
diving-board into the pool. 

The following clipping tells something of John's 
many altruistic activities. — Eds. 

"MUSCULAR CHRISTIANITY." 

A Boxing Cluss in Connection AVith 
a CUurcU in Jersey City. 

Jersey City, N. J., Dec. 2.— When the 
Rev. Edward L. Stoddard, rector of St. 
John's Protestant Episcopal Chureli, opened 
his new Jioxing chiss at St. John's Institute 
to-night, there were six lads present. The 
instructor, John L. Kirk, is a lawyer, a 
nieniher of Grace Church, and an amateur 
of much skill He gave each member of 
the class fifteen minutes' instruction. He 
is a graduate of Princeton College, and it 
was there he learned to l)ox. The Rev E. 
S. Forbes, curate of the church, said that 
the members were in accord with the views 
of Mr Stoddard. They believe it a good 
idea to liave the boys instructed in self-de- 
fence, because they think il will tend to 
their physical development and health. Mr. 
Forbes said tlie price of lessons was fixed 
at ten cents, as Mr. Kirk gives his services 
free. 

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EDWARD RANDALL KNOWLES 

** Scarfs, garters, gold, amuse his riper stage. 

And beads and prayer-books are the toys of age." 

Knowles has been lost In the shuffle ever since 
the triennial, and the committee has had no little 
trouble in dealing him out. It was known that 
after leaving college he and his wife lived at his 
home in Providence, R. L, for a while, a son being 
born to them while there; that in 1882 he went on 
the professional stage, organizing a company of his 
own , and that he had contributed extraordinarily 
abstruse articles, on " The Nature of the Existence 

145 



AFTER TWENTY YEARS 

of Matter" and the like, to various periodicals. 
The committee was finally lucky enough to track 
him to Massachusetts and to secure the appended 
report : 

For ten years my home has been in this secluded 
village of West Sutton, thirteen miles south of 
Worcester, Though my career since '8i has been 
exceedingly clouded by ill-health and extreme pre- 
disposition to lung trouble, I have steadily gained, 
and manifested great endurance, losing meanwhile, 
by their deaths, six successive family physicians, not 
one of whom had had the slightest confidence that I 
would hold out a year in this climate. 

Some years ago I was deeply interested in an 
effort to establish in America an "Old Catholic" 
episcopate under the patronage of the Orthodox 
Syrian Church, from which I received holy orders 
as a priest. After much travel abroad and some 
study and experience of the so-called " Orthodox " 
Coptic, Syrian, Armenian and Greek sects, I lost all 
faith and interest whatever in those sects, as such, 
believing only in the reality and power of the imme- 
diately present Christ and in the acceptance and fol- 
lowing of the promise that " whosoever shall confess 
that Jesus is the Son of God, — God dwelleth in him, 
and he in God." 

Since 1891, I have published several small edi- 
tions of poems (substantially the same collection) as- 

146 



PERSONAL BIOGRAPHIES OF '81 

" Songs of the Life Eternal " [J. Stilman Smith & 
Co., Boston, 1 891] ; "Selections" [Smith & Co., 
1 893] ; " Ecce Regnum, and Other Poems " [Worces- 
ter Messenger Co., 1892] ; and a treatise, "The 
True Christian Science" [1892]. But my only 
successful book, from every point of view, was 
" The Supremacy of the Spiritual " [The Arena Co., 
Boston, 1895]. 

For three years past, I have availed myself of ex- 
ceptional opportunities for study, original research, 
and experiment in psychiatry and hypno-suggestive 
therapeutics ; and although now just forty, I am yet 
young and ignorant enough to seriously expect to 
follow up my intense interest, and perfect my already 
growing proficiency, in the above-named depart- 
ments, by a regular course in one of our best medical 
colleges. 

My journalistic and scientific work has led to 
many unusual experiences, and to recognitions from 
several foreign authorities, governments and societies,, 
as, e.g.y the order of the Liberator (grade of Com- 
mander), from Venezuela, the Ottoman Medjidieh 
(Commander), from the Khedive of Egypt, my elec- 
tion as corresponding member of the Society of 
Geography, Lisbon, 1897, and various other similar 
incidents. 

Apart from the death of my eldest child, my do- 
mestic life has been quite favored and happy. I 
have four children living. 

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AFTER TWENTY YEARS 

It is impossible at present to determine whether 
I shall attend the Class Reunion. I am at present 
in seriously impaired health. 

Knowles has in preparation another book, which 
will probably be entitled " Absolute Therapeutics." 
Of " The Supremacy of the Spiritual " (now out of 
print), the Boston Globe^ among other papers, spoke 
in warm praise, as " clearly treating the ultimate 
nature of matter and the essential nature of elec- 
tricity, and makmg original and important researches 
of a most vital character concerning invisible 
powers of the universe." It added that the book 
would cause the author to rank with the most not- 
able discoverers of this progressive age. 

In 1893, West Virginia College, at a meeting of 
the trustees and faculty, conferred upon Father 
Knowles the honorary degree of LL.D. — Eds. 

FRANCIS G. LANDON 

*• What a pity is it 
That we can die but once to save our country ! " 

" Though wondering senates hung on all he spoke. 
The club must hail him master of the joke." 

I Started my business career on July 19, i88i,as 
clerk in my father's store, Charles G. Landon & 
Co., New York, importers. Upon the death of my 
father, in March, 1893, I resigned my clerkship, and 
since then I have not been in business. 

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PERSONAL BIOGRAPHIES OF '81 

After leaving college, I kept up my interest in 
athletics, the track, base-ball and gymnasium for 
several years. I took a great interest in amateur 




theatricals, and for three or four years took part in 
all the principal amateur productions in New York. 
In January, 1882, I joined the Seventh Regiment, 
N. G. S. N. Y., worked up through all the grades of 
non-commissioned officers, and for over four years 
was Regimental Adjutant and Chief of Staff under 
Colonel Daniel Appleton ; and since April, 1895, 
have been Captain of Company I. 

The most interesting event of my life was my trip 
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AFTER TWENTY YEARS 

to London, in July, 1899. By invitation from one 
of the London volunteer regiments, a brother officer 
and myself were sent to London to represent our 
regiment, the Seventh, and the National Guard of 
New York. The occasion of our visit was to be 
present at a grand review of all the volunteers of 
London by the Prince of Wales, the centennial cel- 
ebration of their first review by King George IIL 
We were much entertained, and as a fitting climax 
had the honor accorded us of a presentation to the 
Queen. It was at Windsor, upon the occasion of 
the Queen presenting to the Scots Guards a new 
State color. It was a beautiful ceremony. At the 
conclusion of the military function three English 
officers and ourselves were brought forward, and 
with this magnificent regiment, 1,600 strong, stand- 
ing at attention, were presented to the Queen by 
the Duke of Connaught. Afterward the invited 
guests, including ourselves, were the guests of the 
Queen in the castle at afternoon tea, and we were 
shown especial attention by the Duke of Con- 
naught. 

In December, 1893, I purchased a small country 
home for myself, — " Mansewood," in Staatsburg, 
Dutchess Countv, N. Y. ; and, when not travelling, 
of which I have done quite a lot, I have spent most 
of my time there. I became interested in my county 
politics ; and in September, 1900, I was unanimously 
nominated by the Republicans for the Assembly of 

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the State of New York, and was elected to that 
office in November. 

On May 20, 1897, I was married in New York: 
City to Mary Hornor Toel, daughter of Mr. and 
Mrs. William Toel ; and we have one daughter, 
Adelaide, born July 3, 1898. 

I am a Republican and an Episcopalian ; I ex- 
pect to be at the Class Reunion, and my address is 
" Mansewood," Staatsburg, Dutchess County, N. Y. 

The New York Tribune says of Frank : 
" Captain Landon is one of the most popular 
men in the Seventh Regiment, and has shown him- 
self to be a valuable man in many positions. He 
was instrumental in organizing the Seventh Regi- 
ment Signal Corps ; was the prime mover in the 
Howitzer Corps, and organized the Bicycle Corps. 
He enlisted in January, 1882, and was made adju- 
tant in January, 1891. At the election which fol- 
lowed the resignation of Captain Harper, Adjutant 
Landon received seventy-eight votes, not one vote 
being cast against him." 



151 




LOUIS j. LANG 

" htt otii t't puiis hostis.''^ — Pktromis. 

*' The newspapers ! — Sir, they are the most villainous — abom- 
inable — infernal — Not that I ever read them. No, I make it a 
rule never to look into a newspaper." 

Mv career, since o;raduation, has been perhaps no 
more eventhil than that experienced hv other ineiii- 
bers ot the chiss who chose journaHsm as a profession. 
Within a few months after leavinc Princeton 1 be- 
came a reporter on the Philadelphia Times. Later 1 
joined the staff of the New York Tiiiirs, and re- 
mained there until the spring of 1882, when the 

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PERSONAL BIOGRAPHIES OF '81 

illness of my mother forced' me to return to my 
home in Elmira, N. Y., where I, for a year, acted as 
news editor of the Daily Advertiser. In 1883 I 
made up my mind to follow the political end of the 
game, and was attached to the political department 
of the New York World. Three years later I was 
made the legislative correspondent of the World at 
Albany, and served as such until 1889, when I be- 
came the Washington correspondent of the New 
York Press. 

The retirement of the Harrison administration 
found me back in New York again on the Worlds 
and until 1895 ^ followed politics for that news- 
paper. [" The last time I saw Lang," writes 
Cauldwell, " he was interviewing Richard Croker, 
who was jumping all over the New York World."~\ 
Through the sessions of 1895, 1 896, and 1 897 I was 
the Albany correspondent of the New York Morn- 
ing Advertiser^ and when, in the latter year, the Ad- 
vertiser was absorbed by the Morning Journal, I was 
engaged by the latter as a political writer. With the 
Journal I am still identified. 

Outside of my duties as a newspaper writer, I 
have contributed intermittently to magazines. My 
most recent article appeared in the November Frank 
Leslie's [1900]. It was entitled " Election Day." 

I was married December 25, 1883, to Clara Os- 
borne Terhune, of Brooklyn, N. Y., at 382 Union 
Street, in that city. We have two children, — Fred- 

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AFTER TWENTY YEARS 

erick Lyford, who was born May 14, 1883, and 
Katharine Gushing, born at Washington, D. C, 
March 13, 1891. 

I am a Republican and a Presbyterian. The 
New York Press Club is the principal social organ- 
ization to which I belong. It will be my pleasure 
to attend the Class Reunion in June, unless any 
event unforeseen prevents. 



FRANCIS LONEY 

After graduation, Loney returned to his home in 
Baltimore and took up the study of the law. He 
attended the Maryland University Law School in 
that city, passing its examinations with high credit, 
and being one of its Commencement orators. Fel- 
]ov/-members of his class there were Walter Preston 
of '81 and Greene of '80. He was admitted to the 
Bar, and for a time practised law in Baltimore. Then 
the wide West attracted his attention, and he went 
out to West Superior, Mich. He engaged in real 
estate and banking and other business enterprises, 
and has been highly successful. 

Frank is not married. He is in the East a good 
part of the time, and is often in evidence at Prince- 
ton functions, robust and enthusiastic. He will 
probably not attend the Reunion. 



154 




ZACHARIAH KEPNER LOUCKS 

Zachariah Kepner Loucks was born on December 
a8, 1 86 1, in Spring Garden Township, York 
County, Pa., at the Loucks homestead in the 
suburbs of the city of York. His father, Zach- 
ariah Kalbaugh Loucks, was a distinguished citi- 
zen of York County, and a noted pioneer in the 
manufacture of high-grade flours. He was a prom- 
inent figure in the growth and development of his 
county, and at the time of his death was President 
of the First National Bank of York. 

The paternal grandfather of the subject of this 
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AFTER TWENTY YEARS 

biography was George Loucks, and his great-grand- 
father, John George Loucks, who in 1780 emigrated 
to America from a village close to the Alsace-Lor- 
raine frontier, — he being the first member of the 
Loucks family to settle in this country. His 
mother was Sarah Ann Loucks, daughter of Colonel 
Michael Ebert, of Spring Garden Township, whose 
ancestors came originally from Wurtemberg, Ger- 
many, and settled in York County during Colonial 
times in 1742. 

The subject of this sketch received his early edu- 
cation at the township schools and the private insti- 
tution of Rev. William Vaughn at York. Later he 
attended the York County Academy and Franklin 
and Marshall College. He matriculated at Prince- 
ton University during the fall term of 1878, grad- 
uating from the institution with the degree of Bach- 
elor of Arts on June 22, 1881. Later he received 
the degree of Master of Arts, on June 20, 1888. 
After graduation he began the study of law in York, 
under the preceptorship of John Gibson, Esq., 
afterward Judge of the Nineteenth Judicial District. 
Upon the elevation of Judge Gibson to the Bench, 
he entered the office of Hon. Robert J. Fisher, an 
ex-Judge of the same district, subsequently moving 
to Philadelphia and continuing his studies under the 
direction of the Hon. George Junkin. He also at- 
tended the law lectures of E. Coppee Mitchell at 
the University of Pennsvlvania, and was admitted 

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PERSONAL BIOGRAPHIES OF '81 

to the Philadelphia Bar on February 5, 1887. Two 
years later, on March 25, 1889, he was admitted to 
the Bar of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, and 
on December 16, 1889, his practice meanwhile 
having extended beyond his native State, he was ad- 
mitted to practice in the courts of the Eighth Judi- 
cial Circuit of Maryland and to the Bar of the 
Supreme Bench of Baltimore. On June 22, 1893, 
he was admitted as a counsellor in the United States 
Court. 

In addition to his extensive law practice, he is 
actively identified with the management of various 
enterprises in which he is financially interested. He 
is a member of the firm of Z. K. & H. J. Loucks's 
Sons, of York, manufacturers of high-grade flours 
and dealers in grain. The mills of the firm are 
among the most extensive in the State. He is also 
a prominent factor in real estate interests in Phila- 
delphia and York, and has various allied enterprises. 

He is a Republican in politics. He has frequent- 
ly been importuned to enter politics, but has never 
allowed his name to be used in any political connec- 
tion, preferring to devote his energies and talents to 
his chosen profession, the management of the large 
estate left by his father upon his death on April 25, 
1895, ^^^ ^^^ various financial enterprises. He is a 
member of the Lutheran Church, and is unmarried. 
He is a graduate member of the American Whig 
Society of Princeton University, and an active mem- 

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AFTER TWENTY YEARS 

to them. They lived at one time, it is said, on 
Long Island, where Lynde went in for some kind 
of fancy duck and chicken farming. Finally he be- 
came an extensive traveller, eventually turning up in 
Australia, where he tried a taste of mining and ad- 
venture. 

In 1895 his father died, leaving half his fortune, 
estimated to be over a million dollars, to Charles 
W., who was promptly summoned home from Aus- 
tralia. His wife had, on August 7, 1893, obtained 
a divorce. Both of his boys had died, within a few 
months of each other, from diphtheria. On his 
father's death, his first wife brought suit to open the 
decree of divorce and obtain a share in his inheri- 
tance. This suit has been fought and won through 
every successive court of New Jersey, and now has 
just been confirmed in her favor by a decision in the 
United States Supreme Court at Washington. By 
this decision she receives $30,000 in cash, as back 
alimony, besides |8o a week during the life of her 
ex-husband. 

Meanwhile, Lynde has married again, his second 
wife being a widow, and a resident of Patchogue, 
Long Island, where he has lived since his return. 
They have a handsome house between Blue Point 
and Patchogue. 



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CHARLES E. MANIERRE 

"Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult." 

— Hannah More. 

My brother Alfred (Columbia, '83) and I continue 
our partnership in the practice of the law in the 
Borough of Manhattan, City of New York. Our 
office has increased in size since the Decennial Rec- 
ord of our class came out. We have both deserted 
the ranks of the bachelors, and our homes are near 
together, not far from Broadway and Seventy-sixth 
Street. I was married January 3, 1900, to Miss 
Elizabeth Hunt Welling, a daughter of Charles H. 

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AFTER TWENTY YEARS 

Welling. My residence is 352 West End Avenue, 
and my business address is 31 Nassau Street, New 
York City. 

I still take an interest in the Prohibition party ; 
and also have a flourishing Bible-class at Bethany 
Memorial Congregational Church, on Tenth Ave- 
nue. I have not been far from New York, except 
one trip to Florida, on which, at Ormond, 1 met 
Dix and his wife. Occasional letters come to me 
from " Billy " Dodd, and I had the pleasure of see- 
ing him when he came back from Turkey two or 
three years ago for a vacation. 

I expect to be at the Class Reunion. 



HARRY K. MATTHEWS 

Harry Matthews did not return to college after 
his rustication by the faculty at the time of that 
famous hazing afi-air in February, 1878. He went 
to Texas and engaged in business in Mineola, in 
that State, in the line of railroad contracting. The 
committee has been unable to trace his subsequent 
history. 



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EDWARD F. MATTHEWS 

Ed. Matthews, whose brain was perhaps even 
more active and versatile than his keen-witted 
brother's, — they were in reahty a brilHant pair, — 
left Princeton at the same time as did Harry, in 
February, 1878. He studied law, and going to 
Cincinnati engaged in practice there. He afterward 
died, — of lung trouble, it is believed, as he had a 
tendency to that disease. 



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PERSONAL BIOGRAPHIES OF '81 

1887. By this alliance I have one child living, 
whose name is Claudia, born July 6, 1887. [Mac 
sailed for B'.urope the following year, this being his 
second trip abroad, and travelled in Spain, Africa, and 
Russia, during which time he wrote a number of 
articles for newspapers in America. — Eds.] I was 
married again, in 1894, to Miss Isabelle E. Wilbur, 
in South Bethlehem, Pa. 

I have held no public office, and have never been 
in politics. 1 have always exercised the privilege of 
voting for the best man for the best place, regardless 
of party or principle. I voted for McKinley both 
times that he was before the people for suffrage, but 
in local politics I have always been a Democrat, 
though I have never been allied to any party or fac- 
tion. I am now for the first time a candidate for a 
political office, and hope to attain the Judgeship of 
the Court of Ordinary, known in some States as the 
Probate Court, which has exclusive jurisdiction over 
wills. I am Captain of a troop of cavalry which 
forms part of the Georgia Militia and is one of the 
oldest organizations in the United States ; its cor- 
porate name is the Georgia Hussars, and it is known 
in the Georgia State Militia as Troop " A " of the 
ist Regiment of Cavalry, Georgia State troops. I 
am also President of the St. Andrew's Society, 
which is composed of native Scotchmen and their 
lineal descendants to the second generation. This 
society celebrated its one hundred and fiftieth anni- 

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AFTER TWENTY YEARS 

versary on November 30, 1900. My grandfather 
was President of the same just fifty years prior to 
my promotion to the honorable position of head of 
the organization. I am a member of almost every 
club or organization in Savannah ; and am one of 
the high officers, in the State of Georgia, of the In- 
dependent Order of Odd Fellows, there being one 
station between my position and the highest office 
in the State in that Order. I have since leaving 
college taken a more or less active part in amateur 
theatricals, and but few years have passed without 
my appearing in prominent roles before select 
audiences. 1 have the honor of being President of 
the Dramatic Association of Savannah. 

I certainly intend to attend the Class Reunion at 
Princeton this June, if I have to walk. 

WALTER L McCOY 

McCoy left Princeton at the close of Soph, year, 
1879, and in the fall entered Harvard, '82. Hence 
it is understood that he no longer regards himself as 
a Princeton man. It may be stated that he attended 
the Harvard Law School, and became a member of 
the New York Bar in 1886. He practises in New 
York City, his office address being 149 Broadway. 

He was married, in New York, to Miss Kate 
Philbrick Baldwin, on October 17, 1888. They 
have three children : Percy Beach McCoy, 2d, 

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PERSONAL BIOGRAPHIES OF '81 

born December ii, 1889; Philbrick, November 14, 
1897, and Catherine Baldwin, September 20, 1899. 



ALEXANDER McCUNE 

** They may rail at this life, — from the hour I began it, 
I've found it a life flill of kindness and bliss ; 
And until they can show me some happier planet. 
More social and bright, I'll content me with this." 

My residence is 613 East Twenty-sixth Street, 
Minneapolis, Minn., and my business address, 412 
New York Life Building, same city. 

I am a lawyer and have never undertaken any 
other business or work since leaving college. The 
amount of success I have met with has hardly justi- 
fied my sticking to the text in the manner I have, 
but I like it very well and have made up my mind 
to stay with it to the end of the chapter, whether 
any success comes from it or not. What few ambi- 
tions I have, I am nursing along carefully ; indeed, 
they are too tender to display to the chilly blasts of 
even a friendly circle like my old class, therefore of 
them I say no more. It is with deep regret that 1 
write that my class can have little to pride itself 
upon in my career. The only consolation I have 
is that few, if any, expected much, and the disap- 
pointment therefore will not be acute. 

I was married on October 20, 1886, at Lima, N, 
Y., to Miss Clara A. McNair. There have been 

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AFTER TWENTY YEARS 

born into our family three children — Clara, on Janu- 
ary '22, 1888 ; Mary McNair, on October 19, 1890, 
and Anna Louise, on March 21, 1893. ^Y wife 
and children are living. 

I have held no position of honor or trust, worth 
mentioning, save that I am now serving a term as 
Alderman in the Citv Council of this city. There 
is nothing else to be said under this subdivision of 
your circular, except that at this writing I hav^e es- 
caped any attention from the grand jury and the 
sheriff. 

In politics the Republican Party usually finds me 
a pretty devoted follower, but I sometimes kick on 
party policy and on nominations for office. I am a 
member of the First Presbyterian Church of this 
citv ; have no club connections, aside from member- 
ship in a neighborhood social club, which has a lit- 
erary name. 

There is little probability that my face will be 
seen at the coming Reunion of our class. A definite 
answer to this question is out of the possibilities at 
this time. I will say that there is no event I can 
think of which would so much gratify me to attend. 

Writing about one's self is a very delicate matter, 
and perhaps least said is soonest mended ; but I 
will say that I am cheerful, enjoy my friends, have a 
reasonable amount of good nature for almost every- 
body, am patient with the never-ending stream of 
applicants for political jobs, sleep well o' nights, am 

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PERSONAL BIOGRAPHIES OF '81 

endeavoring to cultivate a philosophy of life which 
will square with my success and place in life, and, 
finally, if I were just a trifle less " hard up " all the 
time, would be comparatively happy, 

Princeton men are scarce out here in Minnesota, 
and an '8i man is a very rare specimen of that 
genus. However, Harry Walsh is in St. Paul, 
Minn., and I see him occasionally. A year ago was 
the last time I saw him. He was then employed by 
some wholesale house. He was well and cheerful. 

Vanderburgh has been living steadily in Minne- 
apolis since the death of his father, which occurred 
about two years ago. His home is at the corner of 
Seventh Street and Tenth Avenue, South. He has 
no office or business address at this time. Van is 
happy over the birth of a son, an event which hap- 
pened during the past year. His other child is a 
girl ; I cannot give her age. Van made an effort to 
land the Democratic nomination for Congress in 
this district last fall, but failed of nomination. At 
present he is nursing his business interests and liv- 
ing along quietly and sedately as a family man. 

In conclusion, I will say that I hope all the fel- 
lows will feel disposed to poke their noses out of 
their shells just a little farther than I have mine. 
The successful men of the class ought to do it. We 
who have plodded along in the common ways of 
life have little to tell, but every one of us will be 
glad to have the other fellows spread themselves in 

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AFTER TWENTY YEARS 

the sunshine, and I promise them that we will not 
be a bit envious nor accuse them of bragging. 




HORACE McDERMOTT 

McDermott died on July 12, 1897, at Oxford, 
O., of paresis. 

On leaving Princeton he studied law in Dayton, 
O., his home city, and in June, 1883, ^'^^ admitted 
to practice by the Supreme Court. He continued 
in this profession until his death. 

He was married on March 21, 1882, to Miss 
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PERSONAL BIOGRAPHIES OF '81 

Rosalie B. Thruston, of Cumberland, Md., and was 
the father of seven children, six of whom, as well as 
his widow, are now living. 





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CHARLES McKEE 

Died at his home in Lewistown, Pa., of brain fever, 
July 31, 1882, in the thirtieth year of his age. 

McKee was one of twin brothers, born near Lew- 
istown, November 22, 1852. When seventeen or 
eighteen years old, he left school and devoted him- 
self to farming. Six years later, however, he deter- 

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AFTER TWENTY YEARS 

mined to resume his studies, and prepared for and 
entered Princeton. After graduating, he studied 
law in Lewistown until his last iUness. In the latter 
part of 1882 he was suddenly taken sick in the har- 
vest field, where he had been working tor several 
days ; and ten days later he died of brain fever, 
brought on by exposure to the sun. 

THOMAS EDWARD McLURE 

Died April 27, 1889, in the thirty-first vear of 
his age. 

McLure, whose home was in Chester, S. C, left 
college at the close of Sophomore year, and took up 
the study of the law. His father, president of the 
National Bank of Chester, writes us as follows : 

After leaving college, adopting the profession of 
law as a congenial life work, he entered the offices 
of Messrs. Hemphill & Hemphill, at Chester, and 
after the prescribed course of studv was licensed and 
admitted to practice in the Courts of Law and 
Equity, after examination before the Supreme Court 
of the State, sitting at Columbia. After having ob- 
tained his license, he remained in the office of 
Messrs. Hemphill & Hemphill for one vear, to 
further perfect himself in the practice of his profes- 
sion. His genial and courteous manners secured 
for him many warm friends and supporters, so that 
when he opened his own office in Chester, he had at 

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PERSONAL BIOGRAPHIES OF '81 

once a good practice, which continually increased 
until his death. 

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Reynolds, of Rendalia, Ala. His domestic life 
passed most happily. He devoted many of his 
spare hours to improvement of his home and 
grounds. On December 20, 1888, a son was born 
and named John Thomas, — now a bright, manly 
little fellow, and residing with his widowed mother 
at Columbus, Ga. 

As to his politics, he was a Democrat, being a 
member of the County Executive Committee and 

173 



AFTER TWENTY YEARS 

Its secretary. He was much interested in all public 
improvements, and at the time of his death was 
a Director of the Georgia, Carolina & Northern 
Railway Company, — the road extending from Mon- 
roe, N. C, to Atlanta, Ga., and now a division of 
the Seaboard Air Line system ; and was also attor- 
ney for the same. His religious affiliation was with 
the Presbyterian denomination. 

He died after a very painful illness, of blood- 
poisoning, which he bore with great fortitude and 
patience. 

WILLIAM S. McMURDY 

'* But when ill indeed. 
E'en dismissing the doctor don't always succeed." 

After studying medicine for a year in the office of 
a physician at his home in Delhi, N. Y., our hero 
came down to the metropolis, and attended the Col- 
lege of Physicians and Surgeons, graduating in 1885. 
The following year he entered the employ of a large 
chemical house ; in the fall, he became an ambu- 
lance surgeon at Bellevue Hospital ; and in 1887 he 
was junior house-physician at the New York Skin 
and Cancer Hospital. He then took up private 
practice in New York. He writes : 

" I was visiting physician for four years to the 
House of the Holy Comforter, and am now visiting 
physician to the House of the Annunciation. As a 

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PERSONAL BIOGRAPHIES OF '81 

physician, my time is mostly occupied with general 
practice and obstetrics. I reside at 332 West Fifty- 
first Street 

" I was married, in New York, October 23, 1889, 




to Miss Fanny McCabe ; and have two children, — 
William George McMurdy, born July 29, 1890, 
and Katharine Dorothy McMurdy, born April 14, 
1896. 

" I have written no books or articles, and have 
held no public or political office. In politics I am a 
Republican ; in religion, a Presbyterian. I am a 
member of the Princeton Club, the New York 

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AFTER TWENTY YEARS 

County Medical Society, and the New York State 
Medical Association. I expect to attend the Class 
Reunion at Princeton this June." 




GEORGE L. McNUTT 

*• Service shall with steeled sinews toil. 
And labor shall refresh itself with hope." 

McNutt was connected with '8i for two months 
only, from September to November, 1878, and then 
went to Wabash College, from which he was gradu- 

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PERSONAL BIOGRAPHIES OF '81 

ated in 1882. He has never been represented in the 
class records, and Httle has been known about him. 
He appears, however, to be worth knowing about. 
After tutoring for a year in Wabash, he studied for 
the ministry. He was married, on January 3, 1 884, 
to Miss LuHe Slavens, of Kansas City, Mo., and 
they have two sons, William Slavens McNutt, born 
September 13, 1885, and Patterson McNutt, born 
September 30, 1896. McNutt was first settled at 
Urbana, 111., and subsequently at Oakland, Cal. 
He then became pastor of the Fourth Presbyterian 
Church, Indianapolis, Ind. Last year he suddenly 
resigned his position to become "a sort of knight- 
errant in favor of workingmen," as one of his friends 
puts it. This friend writes, " McNutt is a very able 
fellow, a fluent speaker and a ready writer, but ex- 
ceedingly eccentric." McNutt himself writes from 
Brooklyn, in a letter just received while this is pass- 
ing through the press : " I am taking a three-years' 
course in the university of hard knocks, with Pat, 
Hans, Fritz, and other nobodies as teachers. I find 
that Pat in the ditch can give Professor in the chair 
points in philosophy. The sympathetic, genuinely 
scientific equipment it is giving me is invaluable to 
one who desires to be a minister among men." 

The following, from the Philadelphia Press, dated 
January 8, of this year, tells of the striking de- 
parture he has made. Later, after a visit to the Old 
World, working his passage both ways and support- 

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AFTER TWENTY YEARS 



ing his family of four wholly by his daily wages, he 
hopes to return and begin constructive work as a 
minister of the people. 



HE IS WILLING 
TO DO ANYTHING 



This is Rev. Mr. McNutt's 
Scheme to Meet and Study 
Great Social Problems of 
the Century. 



HE 'S A QOOD CARPENTER. TOO 



Princeton Man and North- 
western Graduate, He Built 
a House in Indiana, and 
Labored in a Pittsburg- Air 
Brake Plant. 



Rev. Gcorfje L. McNutt, for- 
merly pastor of the Fourtli Presby- 
terian Church of Indianapolis, 
Ind., is in Philadelphia hunting 
for work. 

Rev. j\Ir. McNutt gave up the 
pulpit for the wheelbarrow. He 
wanted to study economic condi- 
tions. He wanted to learn the life 
of the workingnuin by being a 
workingman himself. And so a 
year ago he left Indianapolis, 
found several positions, and last 
October was in the works of the 
Westinghouse Air Brake Com- 
pany, at Wilmerding, Allegheny 
County, Pa., laboring there until 
a month ago. Now he's in Phila- 



delphia " hunting for a job," as he 
expressed it yesterday. 

There are certain questions Mr. 
IMcNutt wants to solve. He wants 
to know why workingmeu do not 
attend church ; why the church 
has drifted away from the com- 
mon people ; what are the current 
social and economic questions 
among the laboring men. 

So he has put on jumper and 
overalls and mixed with the wage- 
workers. His daily wage has been 
for a year $1.50 a working day. 
He has developed his muscle and 
broadened his mind. 

Mr. McNutt was educated at 
Princeton and is also a graduate 
of Northwestern University. He 
knows theology and the spade, the 
intricate questions on revision of 
faith and the way to handle a 
trowel properly. He built a house 
in Alexandria, Ind. It cost him 
exactly $188 [an article about 
McNutt in the Outlook of Jan. 
5 says .$S0.— Eds.], and was the 
work of his hands alone. It was 
on the outskirts of the town in 
which Mr. McNutt worked in the 
tin mill. His wife and their 15- 
year-old and 4-year-old sons lived 
there, and then Mr. ]\IcNutt, not- 
ing tiiat the hands in the mill had 
no diversions, enlarged this house 
and added chil>-r()oms to it, where 
the "mill boys" could pass the 
evening. Benches, chairs, and the 
like were fashioned from store 
boxes or any old lumber obtaina- 
ble. The fireplace was of cobble- 
stones, set in cement. No plaster 
was used in the Iniilding, but in- 
stead double walls were filled in 
with broken stone. To-day the 



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PERSONAL BIOGRAPHIES OF '81 



house is known as "The Neigh- 
borhood Club " and was dedicated 
by Mr. McNutt last September 
and turned over to the " boys " of 
the mill. The fathers, mothers, 
and children of the neighborhood 
share in its comforts. 

Three days ago Mr. McNutt 
came to Philadelphia and wants 
work in this city for a time. Later 
he will visit the coast cities 

"I am not surprised," he said 
yesterday, " on the hold that the 
saloon has on the common people. 
A man, if he's poor, is constantly 
compelled to accept their cour- 



tesies and necessities. I'm im- 
pressed with Philadelphia's splen- 
did institutions for educational and 
remedial uses, but I'm of the opin- 
ion that the provision for shelter- 
ing homeless men is hopelessly 
inadequate in the City of Broth- 
erly Love. Out of necessity and 
curiosity I have had a taste of 
Philadelphia's best cheap lodging- 
houses and have sampled the hos- 
pitality of the city's wayfarers' 
lodges. In nearly every case the 
physical and moral conditions of 
these places are invitations to dis- 
ease and incentives to crime." 




The Club-houbC tor Working-boys. 
Built by Rev. George L. McNutt. 



GILBERT W. MINOR 

Minor left college in December, 1879. He 
studied law in Poughkeepsie, N. Y., until Septem- 
ber, 1 88 1, and then, removing to Albany, entered 
the Union University Law School, from which he 
was graduated in May, 1882. He has practised law 
in New York City, and is now a member of the firm 

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AFTER TWENTY YEARS 

of Leslie & Minor, at 206 Broadway. His home 
is at 892 Park Place, Brooklyn. 

He was married on December 24, 1884, in Al- 
bany, to Emma J. Farling. They have had two 
children, one of whom, born in Albany, April 12, 
1889, died in infancy, and the other, Helen Gene- 
vieve Minor, was born in Brooklyn, February 15, 
1895. 

ROBERT GRIER MONROE 

1. My business address is 15 Wall Street, New 
York City. My most permanent uptown address 
might be considered the University Club, Fifth 
Avenue and Fifty-fourth Street. 

2. My profession is that of a lawyer and I have 
endeavored to make patent law a specialty. I grad- 
uated from the Law School of Columbia College in 
1883, and was admitted to the Bar in June, 1884, 
and have been practising law in this city since that 
time. 

3. 1 am not married and am not engaged to be 
married. 

4. I was an aide-de-camp on the staff of Governor 
Flower from '91 to '94. I ran for Congress in the 
fall of '94 and was defeated. During Mayor 
Strong's administration I held the position of Attor- 
ney for the Collection of Arrears of Personal Taxes, 
a bureau in the Corporation Counsel's office. I 

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PERSONAL BIOGRAPHIES OF '81 

have been identified with a number of poHtical 
organizations and have been active in different 
campaigns, viz., the Reform Club, the National 




Association of Democratic Clubs, the National or 
Gold Democracy, the Strong and Low mayoralty 
campaigns, and the campaign for the independence 
of the judiciary, conducted by the Bar Association, 
in 1897. I was secretary of the "Anti-Snappers," 
which was the name given to the organized body of 
Democrats in this State in '92 who advocated the 
nomination of Cleveland for President. This latter 
was probably the most successful and effective po- 

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AFTER TWENTY YEARS 

litical movement with which I have been identi- 
fied. 

5. As the answer to question 4 would indicate, I 
am a Democrat, — a Gold Democrat in national 
politics, and an Independent Democrat in local mat- 
ters. 

I belong to the Union, University, Reform and 
Princeton Clubs. I am also a member of the Asso- 
ciation of the Bar of the City of New York. 

I expect to attend the Class Reunion at Princeton 
in June. 

Grier has just been appointed counsel of the Com- 
mittee of Fifteen, in New York City, the citizens' 
committee organized for the purpose of investigat- 
ing the prevailing conditions of vice. — Eds. 

WILLIAM J. MONTGOMERY 

Babe left the classic shades in May, '78, and for 
a while played the role of gentleman of leisure at his 
home in Trenton, N. J. Later he went into mer- 
cantile business in New Orleans. The committee is 
informed that his address is 2520 Prytania Street, in 
that city ; that he is a wholesale grocer and cotton- 
factor, the firm being Montgomery & Parker ; that 
he is married and has two children ; that he has 
made two fortunes and spent three, and that he is 
still ahead of the game. 

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J. LEVERETT MOORE 

1. Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, N. Y. 

2. Teaching. The twenty years of my life since 
graduation can be summed up as follows : 

'81—2. Graduate work in science at Princeton. 

'82-5. Latin Tutor at Princeton. 

'85-'9i. Studying and teaching at the Johns 
Hopkins University; '87-8, Fellow; '86, '88-9, 
Instructor. 

'9i-'oi. Professor of Latin, Vassar College. 

When biographic duty's to be done. 
The professor's lot is not a happy one. 

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AFTER TWENTY YEARS 

The first ten years after graduation are briefly and 
sufiiciently set down in the Decennial Record ; the 
second ten seem to me to stretch back so unevent- 
fully that I had almost begun my account of them 
by omitting the very important fact that I am mar- 
ried and have a daughter. I still continue to be 
Professor of Latin in Vassar College, patiently 
waiting for some of the numerous daughters of my 
classmates to come and be new women. A profes- 
sor's life is at the best not " fast," unless he happens 
to be in Stanford University, or some other place 
where modesty is the best policy ; so I have noth- 
ing to say that needs to be writ large in the Record. 

3. Married in Baltimore, Md., December 23, 
1891, to Nancy Clark Williams; one child, Nancy 
Campbell Moore, born May 13, 1893. 

4. Received the degree of Ph.D. from the Johns 
Hopkins University in 1891. Published my doc- 
tor's dissertation, " Servius on the Tropes and Fig- 
ures of Vergil," in the Atnerican Journal of Philology, 
vol. xii. ; and " Latin Prose Exercises," University 
Publishing Company, New York, 1898; am also 
preparing an edition of Terence for the Gildersleeve- 
Lodge Latin Series. 

5. Am a member of the American Philological 
Association, the Archteological Institute of America, 
and the Managing Committee of the American 
School of Classical Studies in Rome ; also belong to 
the University and Princeton Clubs, of New York 

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PERSONAL BIOGRAPHIES OF '81 

City, and to the Dutchess County Golf Club and 
the Euterpe Glee Club, of Poughkeepsie, N. Y. I 
am a Republican and a Presbyterian. 

6. There are practically no Princeton men, let 
alone '8i men, in this section of the Union. Lan- 
don lives up at Staatsburg, but I never see him 
when he comes to Poughkeepsie. I voted for him, 
however, when he was elected to the Assembly last 
fall. 

LYMAN G. MOREY 

Morey left Princeton in May of Junior year and 
joined the Class of 1 88 1 of the University of Mich- 
igan, at Ann Arbor. He afterward took up news- 
paper work, and until a short time previous to his 
death had a position on the Minneapolis Evening 
Journal. He was unmarried. In politics he was a 
stanch Republican ; in religion, he was not formally 
connected with any church. 

In i888 his health broke down, and he was com- 
pelled to leave his work in search of recuperation. 
He went on a camping expedition to Berts Lake, 
Mich., and on August 8th of that year his boat was 
upset in a storm on the lake and he was drowned. 



185 




CHARLES ALLEN MUNN 

Almost immediately after graduation, I sailed for 
Europe with my parents and my old college friend, 
Morton S. Paton, of the Class of '80. I did much 
travelling and sight-seeing, and passed a delightful 
summer and winter abroad, not returning to America 
for nearly eighteen months. 

On the I St of January, 1883, I went into the 
Scientific American office, with a view of learning the 
business which my father had been instrumental in 
establishing many years before. Desiring to extend 
and perfect my knowledge of the professional side 

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PERSONAL BIOGRAPHIES OF '81 

of the patent practice, I entered the New York Law 
School in 1 89 1. In the year 1893 I took my de- 
gree at the Law School, passed my examination be- 
fore the Supreme Court, and was duly admitted 
to the Bar of the State of New York. Through 
the death of one of the members of the firm of 
Munn & Co., on January i, 1896, much of the 
active management of the business fell upon my 
shoulders. As attorneys, our firm has for over half 
a century been engaged in practice before the Patent 
Office, and I have been actively interested, not only 
in this department of our business, but in the edi- 
torial management of the Scientific American. 

My residence during this period has been at 14 
East Twenty-second Street, New York City, and 
during the summer months, in Llewellyn Park, 
Orange, N. J., where I have had Powers Farr as a 
near neighbor. 

I am single. ["This fact," observes the above near 
neighbor, " is one of the great mysteries of the 
Orange Mountain. It is said that he is afraid of 
being married for a farm that he owns in the vicinity. 
His married neighbors think he should at least pay 
a heavy '' single ' tax for the benefit of those who are 
doing their duty by their country and have thereby 
incurred heavy liabilities."] 

I have not held any public or political office. 

I have made no inventions or discoveries, and 
have written no books or articles, save occasional 

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AFTER TWENTY YEARS 

editorial comments which happen to fall in with my 
professional duties. 

I have obtained no degree except that of LL.B,, 
upon my graduation from the Law School. 

In politics I am at present a Republican, although 
I twice voted the Democratic ticket, before the 
downfall of the Democratic Organization. 
I am a Presbyterian, 
I am a member of the following clubs : 
Union, 
University, 
Racquet and Tennis, 
Century, 
Grolier, 
Merchants, 

•Essex County Country Club, 
Baltusrol Golf Club. 
I expect to be present at the Class Reunion. 

SAMUEL H. MYERS 

•♦ The feather, whence the pen 
Was shaped that traced the Hfe of this good man, 
Dropped from an angel's wing." 

Sam writes : 

You and the rest of the fellows well remember 
my innate modesty in shrinking from public gaze, 
together with the fact that I have successfully dodged 
the sheriff of this county for the past twenty years ; 

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PERSONAL BIOGRAPHIES OF '81 

and if I were to write and give you the history you 
desire, I am sure the sheriff would have me within 
twenty-four hours after the pubHcation of the Class 




Record. However, with the understanding that I 
reserve to myself the right to enjoin you fellows 
from circulating this history in Georgia, I will, as 
briefly as possible and as accurately as I can, give 
you the history of my actings and doings since 
June, 1881 : 

My residence is in Summerville, near Augusta, 
Ga., three miles from the city ; and my business ad- 
dress is Augusta, Ga. I leave off the number and 

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AFTER TWENTY YEARS 

street, as everybody in Augusta either knows me 
personally by reputation, or is in possession of one 
of my due-bills. 1 am still regarded as a very 
" promising " young man. 

After leaving college, I accepted a position as 
entry clerk with the firm of Myers & Marcus, 
wholesale dry-goods merchants of this city, the 
senior member of the firm being my father. 1 re- 
member distinctly that my labors were very arduous 
and confining, such as measuring spool-cotton, 
counting pins in papers, and such other light work. 
This position I held for some time, when my father 
decided that inasmuch as he had carried on this 
business successfully for a number of years previous 
to my employment, he believed that he could con- 
tinue it without any further assistance from me. He 
then placed me in charge of a cotton business, where 
I remained for some four or five years ; and at the 
end of that time, owing to my special talent in this 
line, I had accumulated all the poor lands within a 
hundred miles of Augusta, and in addition thereto, 
as extra collateral, I was the proud possessor of 
every poor, blind, and spavined mule in the country. 
My father still had great hopes in my excellent but 
undeveloped business talent ; thought that with the 
proper encouragement and opportunitv I would be- 
come a second A. T. Stewart or John Wanamaker ; 
and established me in quite a nice dry-goods busi- 
ness in Augusta. Right there is where I reached 

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PERSONAL BIOGRAPHIES OF '81 

my limit. As a successful business man and pocket 
edition of either Stewart or Wanamaker, I was the 
most complete failure that ever happened. How- 
ever, as a failure as a dry-goods merchant, I was a 
howling success and played to standing room only. 

It occurred to me about that time that I had best 
read law, which I very promptly did, was admitted 
to the Bar, and now am the proud possessor of a 
swinging sign bearing in gilt letters the following 
inscription : 



sam:'Iv h. niyers, 

Attorney and Counseivlor at Lav*/, 



and as John Pitney said of me on class-day, " I am 
hitting 'em a natural rap." 

In answering the matrimonial question, not being 
certain about dates, I stated to Mrs. Myers last 
night that my classmates desired to know the exact 
date and place of our marriage. I stated that this 
information was not specially desired by myself, but 
was wanted to complete the Record. She was read- 
ing at the time, and I suppose did not hear me dis- 
tinctly, for she answered, " All her life." I wouldn't 
be surprised if it didn't seem that long to her. As 
a matter of fact, we were married on the twenty-fifth 
day of June, 1890, at Athens, Ga. My wife's 
maiden name was Honora Stern, I have wondered 

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AFTER TWENTY YEARS 

ever since that day how on earth I fooled Mrs. 
Myers. In reference to children, I can safely prove 
an alibi. We live in a healthy neighborhood, and 
my neighbors are all blessed with large families, 
whose children I borrow whenever the occasion 
arises ; but as yet the stork has never visited my 
house. 

The only offices, public, political or otherwise, 
that I have ever held, have been of such minor 
importance, that they have entirely escaped my 
memory. I am always found in the first rank of 
the privates, hollering and cheering for the other 
fellows, who usually get the office and the pay. I 
am generally on hand when the banners are dis- 
tributed, and usually carry one bearing such patriotic 
inscriptions as, " Vote for Bill Jones, the reformed 
candidate, free ballots and no counts," and other 
soul-stirring political devices. I have smoked 
enough campaign cigars, of the give-away kind, to 
make a Filipino turn white. I am continually hop- 
ing that some day my services to the party will be 
recognized and rewarded, and that I will be waited 
upon by a delegation of the best citizens (the news- 
papers refer to these delegations as being the best 
citizens), and as a fitting reward for past services I 
will be tendered the office of constable, justice of the 
peace, police-magistrate, or some other similar high 
office. 

Bv virtue of the fact that I live in Georgia, I am 
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a Democrat, and, as I said before, I expect some day 
to hold some political office ; it is immaterial to me 
what it is, just so long as it is an office. I am an 
active member of the Masons, Knights of Pythias, 
Elks, Red Men and numerous other minor fraternal 
orders. In fact I had a mania for joining, until 
Mrs. Myers remarked that she believed I joined 
these lodges more for the desire to get out at night 
than to deal in brotherly love, benevolence, and all 
such. 

I shall be at the Reunion in June, unless some- 
thing unforeseen occurs. 

I have not had the pleasure of meeting any of 
the fellows, outside of Henry McAlpin, who is liv- 
ing in Savannah, and from what I can learn of 
Henry, he is doing exceedingly well in the practice 
of law. 

[Henry, on his part, pays the following beautiful 
tribute to Sam. It is a most touching love-feast all 
around. — Eds.] 

" Seventh, the only man in this section of the 
country from our class with whom I have been much 
associated is Samuel H. Myers, who lives in Au- 
gusta, Ga., and who, after a checkered commercial 
career, found his calling in law. He started the 
practice of law several years ago, and is making 
quite a success of same. Everybody that knows 
Sam likes him, and they are willing to do what lies 

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AFTER TWENTY YEARS 

in their power to help him along. I would not be 
surprised to hear of his being one of the Supreme 
Bench of Georgia, in the course of the next few 
years." 

W. B. MYERS 

Left the college, in excellent company, in Febru- 
ary, 1878, and afterward went to Lafayette, entering 
the Class of '82. 



FRANK J. NYCE 

Nyce has never reported for any of the class's Rec- 
ords. He left college at the end of Sophomore 
year. His home was in Cambridge, O., and for a 
time he engaged in farming there. 



JULIAN G. OLDS 

We have not been able to obtain any trace what- 
ever of Olds. Van Alen is under the impression 
that he is dead. 

After leaving college, Olds studied and practised 
law in Newark, N. J., for ten years or thereabouts. 
He was married in 1889. About 1894 he went 
West. A Newark lawyer, a relative of his, writes 
that w^hen last heard of, he was believed to be prac- 
tising his profession in Denver, Col. The New 

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PERSONAL BIOGRAPHIES OF '81 

Jersey Lawyers' Diary says, " Last address, Seattle, 
Wash." Circulars and personal letters sent to these 
and several other tentative addresses, however, have 
failed to elicit a response ; and none of the class has 
been able to supply information as to his where- 
abouts or his howabouts. 



FRANCIS J. ORR 

" The Old Fence-Rail, the Old Fence-Rail ! " 

" He had been eight years on a project for extracting sunbeams 
out of cucumbers, which were to be put in phials hermetically 
sealed and let out to warm the air in raw, inclement summers." 

— Swift. 

The class will be surprised and delighted to learn 
that " Mother " has become an inventor and is at 
the head of a five-million-dollar company. All of 
which, and more, he hereinbelow sets forth : 

1. Present address. Rev. Prof [j/V] F. J. Orr, 
Holland, N. Y. ; also, 71 Norwood Avenue, Buf- 
falo. 

2. The year following graduation I was employed 
as an instructor in the Mt. Pleasant Military Acad- 
emy, Sing Sing, N. Y. Then, the next year, I was 
Principal of the Oxford Presbyterian Academy, at 
Oxford, Pa. I then entered the United Presbyte- 
rian Seminary, at Alleghany, Pa., and was graduated 
in 1885. I " missionated " [the quotation marks 

195 



AFTER TWENTY YEARS 

are ours. — Kds.] in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Kansas, 
and Illinois, was offered settlement several times, 
and, accepting one, settled in Coulterville, 111. 




Sickening with malaria, I resigned and again took to 
mission work, laboring in Pennsylvania, Kansas, 
Iowa and Missouri ; settled at Mulberry, Mo., and 
built a mission at Amoret, Mo. Being offered a 
position in Greenwood, in a school preparing for 
Amnesty College (to take entire charge), I resigned 
and accepted this position. 

Typhoid fever prostrating our eldest daughter 
and threatening myself, I changed climate and 

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PERSONAL BIOGRAPHIES OF '81 

took up mission work in Nebraska. After some 
months, acting upon advice of my doctor, I returned 
to my native State, New York, and was seized with 
typhoid fever and held fast for thirteen and one-half 
weeks. On recovering, I spent several months in 
the Catskill Mountains, preaching to the " Moun- 
taineers " and " River Rats." Then I received a call 
to Elgin, N. Y., a small congregation, and accepted, 
expecting to have light work and regain strength ; 
and succeeded so that I could make my century run 
and more on the wheel and suffered no inconven- 
ience. 

I then began lecturing, using the stereopticon. 
This I found pleasant and profitable. I found I 
could reach a class of people that was difficult to 
reach in any other way, and they became interested. 
During this time I had given considerable thought 
to the electric telephone, and concluded to construct 
an experimental one, and thus succeeded in doing 
what has not been done heretofore and promised to 
be a revelation in the telephone world. 

I found my wife in New Jersey, where she was 
not lost; and we were married on September i, 1885, 
after m.y graduation from the Seminary, at her home 
in Wellington, Kan. We have four children, — 
Adena E., born June 21, 1886; James L., born 
November i, 1888 ; Annie L., born July 26, 1891, 
and Albert F., born September 14, 1895. -^^^ ^^^ 
well and doing well. 

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AFTER TWENTY YEARS 

4. Orr Telephone Company, capital, 15,000,000; 
Professor F. J. Orr, President ; F. Montgomery, 
Vice-President. Invented telephone receiver. 

Several extracts from sermons have gone into lit- 
erature. Have made no effort to have my produc- 
tions published. Was offered position as editor of 
a monthly magazine of religious character. Have 
several electric inventions in view, and other de- 
vices. 

I am a Republican, belong to the United Presby- 
terian Church, and am a member of the Christian 
Endeavor Society. 

Will attend the Class Reunion if possible, but 
may be hindered. 

HENRY M. PAYNE 

Payne left college at the beginning of Sophomore 
year, and for a time pursued the study of law at his 
home in Washington, D. C, with the expectation 
of practising with his father in that city. Later, he 
went into railroad engineering. The Record Com- 
mittee takes pride in furnishing herewith the first 
report that has been obtained from him since the 
one-year Record in 1882. He writes: 

My residence is ■2013 Massachusetts Avenue ; 
my business address is United States Court House, 
Washington, D. C. My present occupation is pri- 

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THE BROKAW MEMORIAL BUILDING 
AND ENTRANCE TO THE BROKAW ATHLETIC FIELD, 



PERSONAL BIOGRAPHIES OF '81 

vate secretary to the Auditor of the Supreme Court 
of the District of Columbia. Previous to this and 
for some time prior to my marriage, I was engaged 




in the practice of my profession, railroad engineer- 
ing, in Montana and in this section of the country. 

I was married, May i, 1888, to Frances Ran- 
dolph Hargrove, in Baltimore, Md. I have three 
children, — Marion Hargrove Payne, born April 18, 
1889; Sarah A. Payne, born June 17, 1891, and 
Frances Payne, born March 3, 1896. I am a Ma- 
son and a Gold Democrat ; also an Episcopalian. 

As far as I can learn, I am the only '8 1 man living 
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AFTER TWENTY YEARS 

in Washington at the present time. I meet and hear 
from men of other classes, but see none from my 
own. At this time I cannot say whether I shall be 
able to attend the Class Reunion next June or not. 



JOHN L. PHILLIPS 

Phillips went through Freshman year w'th the 
class. From 1878 to 1880 he was at the University 
of North Carolina. During the next year he stud- 
ied medicine at the University of Virginia, and dur- 
ing the two years following, at the College of 
Physicians and Surgeons, New York City. His 
home was in Washington, D. C. About '84 he 
entered the medical service of the United States 
Army, becoming assistant surgeon. He was sta- 
tioned for a time at Fort Preble, near Portland, Me., 
and has since had several stations in the Far West. 
He is now full surgeon, with the rank of major. 

At the breaking out of the Spanish War, he was 
ordered to a camp in North Carolina, but his regi- 
ment was not fortunate enough to be allowed an ac- 
tive part in the war. Last fall he was at Governor's 
Island, in New York Harbor, and Gill, who met 
him there, states that he was subsequently sent to 
the Philippines. This is now confirmed by his 
father, Judge Samuel F. Phillips, of Washington, 
who writes that Phillips is now at Aparri, North 
Luzon, having been there since January. 

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PERSONAL BIOGRAPHIES OF '81 

He was married, in October, 1884, at Grace 
Church Chapel, New York, to Miss Daisy Horrill, 
and they have had two children ; one, a daughter, 
still living, Frances Lucas Phillips, born March 5, 
1896. 




STANLEY K. PHRANER 

Phraner was the youngest son of the Rev. Wil- 
son Phraner, D.D. He was with the class only 
during its first year. He then entered the Sopho- 
more class of Williams, where he remained till the 
spring of 1881, but did not graduate. From 1881 

201 



AFTER TWENTY YEARS 

to 1886 he was chiefly in the West, part of the time 
in Kansas and part in Texas. In 1887 he entered 
Princeton Theological Seminary, graduating in 
1890. 

In August of that year he married Miss Eliza- 
beth Pennell, of Omaha, Neb., and went out as a 
missionary to Laos, under appointment of the Pres- 
byterian Board. 

On February 12, 1891, Mrs. Phraner died, and 
for a time during the early months of 1891 Phraner 
himself was so unwell that he was urged by the 
medical missionaries to return home. Against their 
advice he remained upon the field, and went off re- 
peatedly from Chieng Mai, where he was located, 
on iong and fruitful evangelistic tours, especially to 
the far north. Several times his health seemed 
broken down, but he steadfastly refused to come 
back to the United States. Once he was willing to 
leave the field, and went to Singapore and then to 
Java for a month, returning to Chieng Mai ready 
for further service. On July 7, 189a, he married 
again, his bride being Miss Eliza L. Westervelt, of 
the Laos Mission. In June, 1894, he reported that 
he was in better health than at any time since reach- 
ing the field, and was planning, as soon as a new 
medical missionary might arrive, to go off to the 
north to establish a new station at Chieng Hai. 
The depletion of the missionary force by necessary 
returns to America on account of ill-health left him 

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PERSONAL BIOGRAPHIES OF '81 

with one other missionary to carry on the extensive 
and burdensome work of the Chieng Mai Station. 
He never murmured at this, though his heart had 
been set upon going to Chieng Hai. It was appar- 
ent, however, from many letters, that he would have 
to abandon this hope, and on November 8th, Dr. 
Peoples, who was with him, wrote that he was ad- 
vising him to return home at once, but that they 
would wait till authority might be cabled from the 
Board. Before this could be done he was obliged 
to leave, in December, and with his wife and two 
small children he reached Singapore, Here he died, 
on January 15, 1895. ^^ ^^^ buried in the Singa- 
pore cemetery, and Robert E. Speer, '89, writes 
that he went to see his grave while there, in order to 
see that it was in good repair. 

He left two children, — Wilson Westervelt, born 
July 29, 1893, ^^^4 Stanley Lansing, born Septem- 
ber 16, 1894. His widow and children are at pres- 
ent living with his father at 31 Lenox Avenue, 
East Orange, N. J. 

The Church at Home and Abroad^ in expressing 
sorrow at Phraner's death, spoke warmly of his 
earnest and self-sacrificing work, and said that the 
spirit of his four years of missionary service marked 
him as one of the most lovable, persistent, and inde- 
fatigable missionaries of the Presbyterian Church ; 
that his missionary life was peculiarly full of severe 
trial and suffering, but that he was enabled to main- 

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AFTER TWENTY YEARS 

tain through it all the same genial and hearty char- 
acter which all who knew him in his seminary course 
would remember. 




JOHN OLIVER HALSTED PITNEY 

** The law is a sort ot hocus-pocus science, that smiles in yer 
face while it picks yer pocket ; and the glorious uncertainty of it is 
of mair use to the professors than the justice of it." 

In response to your recent circular, I will give 
you the facts desired, trusting to the literary ability 
of the committee to get them up in an attractive 

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PERSONAL BIOGRAPHIES OF '81 

form. [In this instance there was no occasion for 
the exercise of the committee's alleged literary abili- 
ty. — Eds.] 

I. My legal residence is at 37 Washington Street, 
Newark, N. J. My place of business is at 765 
Broad Street, in the same city. I reside most of the 
year, and will always be glad to see any of my class- 
mates, at 123 Madison Avenue, Morristown, N. J. 

1. I am still engaged in the active practice of the 
law, and have had my full share of the business 
here. 

3. I was married on January 15, 1890, at the 
North Reformed Church, in Newark, to Miss Ro- 
berta A. Ballantine. We have had only one child, — 
a boy, born December 12, 1892, named John Bal- 
lantine Pitney, a red-hot Princeton enthusiast, dili- 
gently preparing himself for admission to the Class 
of 1 9 13, with every expectation of a place on the 
football team. 

4. I have never felt equal to a public or political 
office, nor have I enjoyed any position of public 
trust that was a private snap, although I have filled 
several positions that I consider an honor, and have 
had some gratifying evidences of trust on the part 
of the people of this city. I have had directorships 
in two banks and in a prominent insurance company, 
but no military rank since that enjoyed in college in 
connection with the Garfield and Arthur Light In- 
fantry. I have never delighted my enemies by 

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AFTER TWENTY YEARS 

writing a book, but I have made several inventions 
and discoveries which I am not giving away. Since 
leaving college I have obtained several degrees, at 
$14. each, all in the line of the legal profession, but 
otherwise cannot claim to have done any particularly 
noteworthy thing that should cause the bosom of 
our class to swell with pride. 

5. I am a Republican and a Presbyterian, and 
yet am a member of the University and Princeton 
Clubs of New York, Essex Club of Newark, Essex 
County Country Club of Orange, Morris County 
Golf Club, Morristown Club and Morristown Field 
Club. 

6. I expect to be in Princeton with my family 
during the whole of Commencement week, in June, 
and to be present at the Class Reunion. 

7. I have kept pretty closely in touch with those 
of our class who live in the vicinity of New York, 
and can give you, or procure for you, information 
about any of the following, if your reports on any 
of them should not be satisfactory. If you will let 
me know some little time before the report is made 
up, I will be glad to co-operate in giving informa- 
tion about any of those mentioned. [Here follows 
a goodly list of names, Pitney proving to be the 
model of the class in his comprehensive treatment of 
question 7. — Eds.] 

A classmate writes of John : 
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PERSONAL BIOGRAPHIES OF '81 

" Doing exceedingly well professionally and in 
every other way, and is held in highest regard 
everywhere." 

H. CHARLES PORTER 

Polly's whereabouts eluded the committee for a 
long time. No one in the class seemed to know 
his address, as the question was specially asked in 
the address-list sent out with the circular of inquiry, 
and remained unanswered. After leaving college, 
he taught in Wilkesbarre, Pa., and studied law 
there ; and then went to Philadelphia, where he con- 
tinued both occupations. He taught for several 
years at Brown's, a prominent school for boys in 
that city, and was later an Instructor in the U. of P. 
The Decennial Record stated that, as its editors 
were informed, Porter subsequently " married a rich 
wife, quit work, and is now [this was in 1891] liv- 
mg abroad." 

We have finally discovered him, but he makes 
no allusion to this alleged and highly interesting 
episode in his career. He writes as follows: 

" My dear Dix : 

" Judging from your perseverance in 
sending out circulars, you have lost none of your 
old-time persistency of character. In looking back 
over my own life for the past twenty years, of whose 
passage your notice so relentlessly reminds me, I 

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AFTER TWENTY YEARS 

find a dearth of those incidents essential for an auto- 
biography, or even for confirming my present self- 
conceived impressions of what life means and has 
meant. 

" That I am still living, let this letter certifv, as 
well as acquaint you and other members of the class 
with my address, 22^2 North Fifty-third Street, 
Wynnefield, Philadelphia, Pa. 

" At present, I am teaching in a boys' private 
school recently organized in this citv. After five 
years' experience as an Instructor in the University 
of Pennsylvania, I find the original occupation of 
my earlier years more satisfactory. 

*' Of other men of the Class of '81 I regret my 
inability to send any news, not having conversed 
with an '81 Princeton man since the Sesquicenten- 
nial. Trusting, particularly for the sake of other 
members of the class in a similar isolated position, 
that you will succeed in making this record of the 
class as complete as vou desire, 1 remain," etc. 

Porter has the degree of Ph.D. 

WALTER W. PRESTON 

Was born in Harford County, Md., January 14, 
1863. H^ attended the Bel Air Academy, and St. 
John's College, Annapolis, at which latter school 
he passed through the Junior class. 

In 1880 he entered the Senior class at Princeton, 
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PERSONAL BIOGRAPHIES OF '81 

where he graduated in Jane, 1881, with the degree 
of A.B, He immediately commenced the study of 
law at Bel Air, Md., and later attended lectures at 




the law department of the University of Maryland, 
and after one year at the University, graduated with 
the degree of LL.B. In 1884 the degree of A.M. 
was conferred on him by Princeton. 

In 1888 he was elected by the Democratic Party 
a member of the Maryland Legislature from Harford 
County, and was re-elected in 1890. In the latter 
session he was appointed chairman of the Judiciary 
Committee, and of the Committee on Claims, two 

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AFTER TWENTY YEARS 

of the most important committees of the House. 
In 1 89 1 he was appointed Acting State's Attorney 
for Harford County, becoming State's Attorney in 
January, 1892, by election of the people; and he 
was re-elected in 1895. He retired from this office 
on January i, 1900, having been continually in 
office for twelve years. 

He is now engaged in the practice of law at Bel 
Air, Harford County, where he resides. He mar- 
ried, on November a, 1892, Lillie Pue Hall. 

Besides the above-named positions, he is presi- 
dent of the Savings Bank of Harford County, and 
is Past Master of the Masonic Lodge at Bel Air. 
He is an Episcopalian, and is a vestryman of Em- 
manuel Church in that place. He will certainly 
attend the Class Reunion at Princeton in June, 
1 90 1. He writes: " 1 would not miss it for any- 
thing." 

E. DUNBAR PRICE 

Died in New York City, December 4, 1890, aged 
thirty-two years. 

Price was in college only two months, leaving in 
November, 1877. By the death of his grandfather, 
Elon Dunbar, in that year, he inherited a very large 
income, which was afterward increased at the death 
of other relatives. In 1881 he was married, in 
Philadelphia, where he lived, to Miss Sarah C. Bur- 

210 




THE ATHLETIC HOUSE, UNIVERSITY FIELD, 
Showing Part of Base-ball Cage. 




THE OSBORN ATHLETIC CLUB-HOUSE, 
On Prospect Street. 



PERSONAL BIOGRAPHIES OF '81 

ton ; the wedding being said to have been one of the 
events of the social season. He did not engage in 
any regular occupation or profession. 




ALEXANDER T. REID 

After leaving Princeton in June, 1878, I was in 
the National State Bank of Boulder, Col., for about 
four years. The next two years I was Deputy 
County Treasurer of Boulder County, Col. Then 
I moved to Denver, and was with the Colorado 
National Bank there for twelve years, when on 

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AFTER TWENTY YEARS 

account of failing health 1 became somewhat of a 
wanderer. I spent a year in the East, then went to 
California, where I stayed two years, most of the 
time being on a fruit ranch near Long Beach. My 
next move was to New York State, where for a year 
I was an insurance agent ; but last July, at the sug- 
gestion of Alex. Hudnut, I reformed and became 
a respectable citizen again. I am now cashier for 
Halsey & Hudnut, a Princeton firm on Wall Street. 

I am still desperately single, have never been 
married, and don't recollect being engaged. 

I was Sergeant of Company H, Colorado National 
Guard, some years ago, but it was a bloodless affair. 
Have written no book, made no invention, and done 
nothing that I know of to cast a halo of glory over 
the Class of '8i or myself Just led a decent life, 
paid such of my debts as were pressing, and kept 
out of jail. 

I am a Democrat, without reservations or desire 
for reorganization ; and a Presbyterian with slight 
reservations. I belong to no clubs or societies. 

I shall be at the Reunion if the walking is good. 

On the subject of '8i men, I have nothing to fur- 
nish, beyond the fact that Titsworth and I were 
members of a Princeton Club in Denver, which was 
instrumental in bringing the Princeton Glee Club to 
Denver some five years ago, — where they gave two 
very successful concerts. Beyond this, Alex. Hud- 
nut is the only one I've kept in touch with. 

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WILLIAM HUGH KENDALL 

Died of consumption, at Lincoln University, Pa., 
October 22, 1882, in his twenty-first year. 

Kendall was born June 29, 1862, in Madura, 
India, the son, it is believed, of missionary parents. 
He came to this country, and subsequently prepared 
for college, graduating with the class. His health 
became seriously impaired toward the end of Senior 
year, and in the summer he put himself at once in a 
physician's care. For a time his voice left him en- 
tirely. His hope was to study theology in the fall, 
with the intention of becoming a missionary. Grow- 
ing somewhat better, he was able to begin the course 
at Lincoln University, Pa., but in the fall of 1882 
he succumbed to his malady. 



MICHAEL KHINE 

Every fellow remembers the genial and accom- 
plished Mike, now that his name is mentioned, and 
will smile delightedly at the memory. The com- 
mittee only wishes it could supply the thirst for ad- 
ditional information about him. He was with the 
class for a year and two months, and then went into 
'80. '8o's new Kecord, however, contains no men- 
tion of his career, its secretary, George Dunning, hav- 
ing had no better luck than ourselves in tracing him. 

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G. H. RICE 

After finishing Freshman year with the class. 
Rice went to Hamilton College, where he entered 
the class of '82. His home was in Elmira, N. Y. 



L. D. RICKETTS 

After taking a two years' post-graduate course at 
Princeton for D.Sc, Dave went to work in Lead- 
ville. Col., as a mine surveyor in July, 1883. In 
1885 he resigned, and took a position as Superin- 
tendent of the work on some mining claims near 
Silverton, Col., for a New York company, and he 
continued this work for two years. In 1887 he ac- 
cepted a position as Geologist for the Territory of 
Wyoming, and was later State Geologist, but he re- 
signed in 1890 and accepted a position as mining 
engineer with various allied mining companies do- 
ing business in the Southwest. 

From 1893 to 1896 he did some mining upon his 
own account, gaining experience, and in the last- 
named year returned to work for his former em- 
ployers. He is still working for them as a consult- 
ing engineer in business connected with the mining 
and metallurgy of copper. For the past year he 
has been acting as Superintendent of a copper mine 
and reduction-works, during the period of construc- 

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tion and adjustment of the plant for steady produc- 
tion. He is not married. His business address is 
No. 99 John Street, New York City, and his resi- 
dence at present is Nacozari, Sonora, Mexico. He 
is not a poHtician, but is, if anything, a sound-money 
Democrat. 




CHARLES CARROLL ROBBINS 

If the committee only sought fiction, I could 
easily write a glowing tale, for I would not then be 
hampered by any limitations whatever and could 

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AFTER TWENTY YEARS 

make my career appear fine. I am neither a histo- 
rian nor a biographer, and so have been slow to 
take up my story and tell about myself. 

My residence is 262 Hamilton Avenue, Trenton, 
N. J.; my business address is 28-30 Forst-Richey 
Building. 

1 have been engaged in the general practice of law 
here since November, 1886. I have met with suffi- 
cient success to keep on good terms with the few 
creditors that I have. I have had no celebrated 
cases, either civil or criminal. None of my clients 
have been hanged ; and I am not aware that any 
really guilty have escaped through my efforts. 

As I remarked ten years ago, Edna Thompson 
and I were married at Urbana, O., by Rev. George 
L, Van Alen, on October 12, 1887. The knot was 
well tied and still holds. The only child we have 
ever had is Elsie Robbins, born August 9, 1892. 
Her mother declares that she is very much like her 
father in many ways, from which you may infer a 
great deal. 

I was a member of the Board of Health of this 
city for nearly four years. I have been a member 
of the Board of Education for the past six years, and 
have just been again appointed for another term of 
two years. I was president of the board for three 
terms of one year each. 

I am still a Republican and a Presbyterian. 

As to other '81 men, I have seen more of Van 
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PERSONAL BIOGRAPHIES OF '81 

Alen and T. D. Warren than of others. Van be- 
came tired of Quay rule and moved over into Jer- 
sey, and has become a real Jerseyman. Tom War- 
ren still supports the Republican ticket in New 
York, He and the officials at Washington created 
a post-office for him and gave it the name of Spin- 
nerville, and Tom was the first, last, and only post- 
master the place ever had. He ran it several years 
and then grew tired of it. I saw it in operation 
during the last week of its existence, and to the last 
it had a good delivery. The officials at Washing- 
ton let him out by recommending the rural free 
delivery in that section, and now Spinnerville is no 
more ; and all that is left is a memory and the stamp 
used for cancellation. T. D.'s address is now Mo- 
hawk, as it was twenty-odd years ago, with the addi- 
tion of R. F. D. for certainty and P. D. Q. for speed. 

I have enjoyed the best of health. Am happy 
and contented with what I have done, though I 
have won neither fame nor wealth. Have done 
nothing great ; never expected to. 

If I am alive and the trolley runs, I will be with 
you at Princeton in June. The trolley has made 
Princeton, and Trenton suburbs of each other, and 
my house is on the line connecting them. I hope 
that we may have a large number of the boys back, 
for the Reunion, and a very merry time learning of 
each other's prosperity and success. 



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EDWARD G. ROBERTS 

♦* An elegant sufficiency, content. 

Retirement, rural quiet, friendship, hooks. 
Ease and alternate labor, useful life, 
Progressive virtue and approving Heaven." 

It hardly seems possible that nearly twenty years 
have elapsed since we were together as one class at 
Old Nassau. How time does fly ! and yet even now 
I don't seem to feel much older than when I was at 
Princeton, twenty years ago. I am still located at 
Columbus, O. My residence address is 415 East 
Broad Street, and my office address 265^ North 

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PERSONAL BIOGRAPHIES OF '81 

High Street. I have never entered into any mer- 
cantile business, but have devoted my time to look- 
ing after my property interests. I have done some 
building. 

I have spent quite a number of my summers since 
leaving college in Colorado, and have been to Flor- 
ida several times during the winter months. My 
last trip to Florida, which lasted about seven weeks, 
was spent on the Gulf coast, fishing. We went as 
far south as Naples, Fla. 

I am still a single man, and am not engaged, and, 
I may say, have no prospects, — at least, at the pres- 
ent time; but, of course, we cannot always tell what 
a day may bring forth. I have held no political 
offices and do not aspire to anything of that sort. I 
am a Republican in politics, first, last and all the 
time, and in the national elections always vote the 
straight Republican ticket. In local politics I gen- 
erally vote the Republican ticket, but occasionally 
make an exception to the rule, according to the 
character of the man who is running for office. I 
am a Baptist, but not one of the " hard-shell " sort. 
I am a member of the Columbus Club, one of the 
social organizations of our city. Am also a member 
of one of our bowling clubs, and we bowl one after- 
noon each week, from 3 to 6 p.m., the year round. 

I hardly think that I shall be present at the Re- 
union in June, but if I am not there in person, I 
shall be with you in spirit, and hope the meeting 

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AFIKK I \\ KN ^^ ^ KAKS 

will l>c a success. I can gixc no iiitonnatiDn in rc- 
oaiil to other Si nu-n, as I have seen \ei"V little of 
an\ ot them since leaNini^ college. 1 he only one 1 
ha\ f seen ot late years is A. S. Roilgers, whom I 
met heri> two or three years ago. 

With three cheers ami a tiger tor 'Si and OKI 
Princeton, I am as e\er, etc. 



wiLMAM 11. iu)Hr:Rrs 

In the autumn tollowing 'graduation, Uillv entered 
the enijiloy ot the American i'.xchange National 
Mank, in New "\'ork City, and continued in the hank- 
ing Inisiness until a tew years agc\ rising through 
vurioxis graiies. When the hank with which he was 
then Ci>nnected went out ot business, he threw in his 
lot with the People's Light and Power Comjtany, of 
Newark, N. |.,with which Phil Jackson is pronii- 
nentU connected. Behind the cashier's desk there he 
hecame a tamiliar tigure, — " round-taced, smiling and 
hald headed," as one ot his classmates jnits it. llis 
he.ilth t.uling, he reliiujuished his position, and went 
out [o nan\ilte, Kv., where his father, the Rev. 
William Koherts, is jMcsident ot (.'entre Cc>llege. 
HilU is now there, and writes that he is still under 
the doctor's care. 

I Ic remains unswervingly single, and says he has 
held no jHihlic ov ]H)litical offices or military rank, 
written no hooks, made no iiuentions or discover- 

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PERSONAL BI()C;KAPHIP:S OF '81 

les, aiul done no other noteworthy things. He is a 
Republican. He does not expect to attend the 
Reunion. 




WILLIAM A. ROBINSON 

" Delightful task ! to rear the tender thought. 
To teach the young idea how to shoot." 

My report for the Decennial Record left nie fill- 
ing the chair of Greek at Lehigh University I 
continued for eight years to breathe the intensely 
unclassical but socially delightful atmosphere of 

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AFTER TWENTY YEARS 

South Bethlehem, meeting only those external and 
impersonal changes which do not belong to this 
Record. Two years ago, I was invited to take 
charge of the Latin department at Lawrenceville 
School, and after hesitation accepted the invitation. 
The changes involved were great, but on the whole 
worth making ; and I have found no cause for re- 
gret. It is to me a new experience, — and a very 
pleasant one, — to be thrown by my work into close 
touch with Princeton men, and to feel that whatever 
I do here with success counts directly for Old 
Nassau. 

I have to report but one addition to the roll of 
'Si's new generation, — Thomas Hastings Robinson, 
3d, born January 18, 1893. 

WALTER F. ROBINSON 

*' His faith, perhaps, in some nice tenets might 
Be wrong ; his life, I'm sure, was in the right." 

Immediately after leaving college I studied medi- 
cine, graduating in 1884, after which I spent about 
two years in hospital work in America, combined 
with general practice. I then went abroad and spent 
three years visiting and studying in the various 
European clinics and hospitals. On my return I re- 
sumed practice, and I am still at it. 

During the Spanish War I went to the Sand- 
wich Islands as surgeon attached to the First New 

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THE TROPHY-ROOM IN THE ATHLETIC CLUB-HOUSE. 



PERSONAL BIOGRAPHIES OF '81 

York Volunteer Infantry. The regiment was or- 
dered to Manila ; but when we arrived at San Fran- 
cisco, peace was declared and we considered ourselves 




fortunate in getting as far as the Islands, where we 
remained about three months, waiting for something 
to turn up. Our trip to the Islands was extremely 
interesting to me, though we all very much regretted 
not having a chance to see active service. 

The island climate is said to be one of the finest 
in the world, and this is one case where popular re- 
port is true. The morning sun is quite warm and 
shade is very grateful. About the middle of the 
afternoon, however, a dehcious trade-wind comes 

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AFTER TWENTY YEARS 

over the ocean, cool and bracing, and after that it is 
pleasant to ride, drive, or walk. As to the nights, 
the only word to describe them is charming. They 
were cool and pleasant but mild, so that I swung a 
hammock in front of my tent and slept in it, in 
preference to staying inside. To wake up at night 
was a delight, the air was so soft and balmy and the 
stars so bright. The large planets are so brilliant 
that they throw a wake on the water almost as large 
as the moon's. 

The winter following the war, I practised in 
Central Florida, taking with me certain patients who 
were unable to stand our severe Northern winter. 
This winter (1900- 1901) finds me doing the same 
thing again. 

I am neither married nor engaged, and each year 
that goes by finds me more and more confirmed in 
bachelorhood. I was formerly lecturer on Klectro- 
Therapeutics at the Albany Medical College, and 1 
am told that I can have the position again if I re- 
turn to that city. 

If I am anywhere near New York in June, I 
shall certainly come to the Reunion, but it is im- 
possible for me to tell definitely. If I have to take 
my patients up into the woods, it would be impos- 
sible for me to come back just for two or three days. 

In answer to a further inquiry. Pop writes : 
As to politics and religion, I have the same opin- 
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PERSONAL BIOGRAPHIES OF '81 

ion as to both. They are the result of inherited 
prejudices, and largely due to the imperative need 
that man feels to be fighting with some one. Feel- 
ing as I do, therefore, I have no opinion, and not 
the slightest desire to take sides, anv more than I 
would in a dog-fight. 




ADDISON S. RODGERS 

Since closing the last chapter of my autobiog- 
raphy, in the Decennial Record, but little has hap- 
pened worthy of mention in this report. My 

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AFTER TWENTY YEARS 

residence and business connections are the same, 
and as given below. 1 am still single, with prospects 
fair to remain so. 1 am a Presbyterian, a Repub- 
lican, a member of the Lagonda Club (social), the 
Columbia Club (political), and the military order of 
the Loyal Legion (patriotic). I hope to be present 
at the Reunion in June, when any information not 
herein contained will gladly be given. 

Rodgers's home is in Springfield, O., and an 
agreeable and hospitable home it is, as one of the 
Editors of the Record can testify. Ad. is Secretary 
of the Springfield Gas Engine Company. 



FRANK M. ROSEBERRY 

I attended the Law School of the State Univer- 
sity of Iowa, at Iowa City, la., graduating in the 
year 1883. Thenceforth, 1 have been actively en- 
gaged in the practice of law, at Lemars, la. In my 
profession I have attained satisfactory success. 

I have been married fifteen years. Mv wife's 
maiden name was Delia M. Page. We have three 
children, — C. Depue Roseberry, born January 23, 
1887, and now in his second year of the city high 
school ; Florence Mackey Roseberry, born Septem- 
ber 24, 1892, now in fifth room grade school work, 
and Irene Delia Roseberry, born June 7, 1896. 

I have held no political or other office, unless of 
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PERSONAL BIOGRAPHIES OF '81 

a minor character and in necessity. I have no de- 
sire to earn a Hvelihood by playing the role of a 
politician. The human wrecks in character, reputa- 




tion and possibilities are sufficient warning to avoid 
the side-track of my profession. I am intensely in- 
terested in the affairs of State, local and national, — a 
Republican in party affiliations, a Democrat respect- 
ing liberty and rights. I expect to assist in the fight 
against the great' corporations, or family organiza- 
tions, domineering the industrial field or reducing 
us to the rank of legal courtiers to truly industrial 
kings. If need be, I would prefer socialism to de- 

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AFTER TWENTY YEARS 

pendency. I have stumbled on no minerals, thought 
out no invention, nor stolen one from another. I 
travel the narrow field of the legal profession, which 
requires the entire power of my mind. 

Religiously, I am a believer in God, conscious in 
part of my imperfections, and have hope to live 
somewhere hereafter. I am a member of the Pres- 
byterian church of this city. I realize that my piety 
will never give me brain fever, but it is a good thing 
to tie to. However, all people of the earth stand 
as good a show to enjoy the felicities of heaven, as 
pictured by Dr. Atwater, as I do. 

I will probably attend the Class Reunion next 
June. 

ADRIAN SCHARFF 

Died at Nashville, Tenn., November 2, 1890, 
aged thirty years. 

The Decennial Record quotes the following facts : 

" When his father lay dying, he called to his bed- 
side his oldest son, Adrian, then scarcely nine years 
old, and gave him a charge concerning the entire 
family. He was to care for and comfort his mother, 
and be an example and a father to his younger 
brothers and sisters. Into this inheritance of care 
and responsibility he entered manfully, and while 
life lasted, his first anxiety seemed to be to fulfil to 
the uttermost this trust. 

"He graduated from Columbia Law School in 
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PERSONAL BIOGRAPHIES OF '81 

1884, and practised in the local courts of Newark, 
until in 1888 he became Examiner of Claims and 
Auditor for the Fidelity and Casualty Insurance 




Company, of New York. He was employed as 
their attorney, with large responsibility, until the 
time of his death, at Nashville, Tenn., where he had 
opened an office for the company, with the intention 
of making his home in that city. 

" He was active in church work, particularly 
among the young. While working in this direction, 
he organized a Lend-a-Hand Club, met with the 
boys evenings, taught them how to carry on their 

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Ai n u rw i\ r\ vi aks 

c\\\h inc'c-tiiu;s |Mi^tiMM\, cntcrt.iinc\l tlu'in \n his 
hotuv.'. I he'll li\ cs to d'.iv .\vc showini; h..n\ milv 
(l\c"\ jMi.cJ his example .ii\vi his lessons iti in.mly 
living." 

W 11 I 1AM S. SrHENCK 

Is. piopc'ilv speaking, an 'So man. Atu-r ^r.ulu- 
ating, he came into our class during its list \ f.ir. .uul 
took a special course in morning chaptl .uul orni- 
thology, in order to continvie catchiii^ on ttu- nine. 
Reference is made to him, .is to Ciuillovi .uul Jordan 
and Milvc" Rlwnc. tor the s.ike ot thoroughness. 

After leaving college, he purchased a t'arm about 
three miles west of Princeton, on the Trenton road, 
arid has lived there ever since. I le lu.irried Kliza- 
hech W. Thillips, on Peeemher ;o. lSS^^.uul h.is 
two hovs and three girls. lie .ittends the First 
I'reshvterian Church in l*rineetot\, with his wite and 
children, everv Sunday morning, and he is a deacon 
and passes the plate. He is a Ivepvihlie.in. lias 
held no public otRces, hut has written se\ eral com- 
petitive articles tor agricultur.il papers, aiul \vot\ se\- 
eral prizes. 



230 




GEORGE S. SCHMIDT 

*' Now is the winter of our discontent 
Made glorious summer by this sun of York. " 

The committee's first letter came as I was on the 
eve of starting to Bermuda, whither I was sent by 
my physician, after rather a hard winter's work, to 
recuperate from the effects of an uncommonly severe 
attack of the grippe. I returned about the middle 
of March, and of course intended to reply promptly, 
but a lot of work had accumulated in my absence 
and of course the work had the right of way. When 
I had ploughed through the accumulated corre- 

231 



Al 1 I K rw 1 \ IN N I VKS 

spvuuU'iwx" and \^.l^ iv.uIn (o wiilv tlu- im>s( uml\(^•l - 
cstiui; stoiv ot iiiN htv, I .luvun trll a \ udm to (Iw 
l.\iipj>r. .iiul tn>iii (Ills srv'oiul .ilt.uk I .im now 

IVA'OVlMUlg, 

My I'CsidvMWV is still .u \oik, r.i., wluir I .iin 
prrtCtisin^ law .uul .im int^-u-strd in our oi two ni.m 
vitiicturing coipoiutuuis. I am a dnwtoi ot aiul 
coviMscI tv)t one ot tl\c lailioavl t,\)iupani^"s, and un\ 
covmscl tor a iuhuIum ot oorpoiations wl\icl\ v>|HMatc 
unvK'i Nvw Kmscv chart^Ms and in tl\is locality aic 
inistukcnlv n-tnuHl to as *' trusts." \\\' l».i\rir 
cvntiv umulgani.itvd .ill ol thr ^itv .md svd»viiN.in 
stia't railway Im^'s i^tiy*.- m tuimlHM ) with tvyo cU\"trK'- 
liy;ht companies, aiul I sustain tlir icl.iiion ot scciv- 
tttry ut\d covn\scl to ttu- p.iu-nt .u\d.dl thr cvxistitucnt 
conipunics, 

I h.oo nritlu'i *'wiittcn a Nook," " luavlc an in 
ycntu>n," iu>i '' dvnic <iny otlu'i notcwv>rtl\y tiling 
\yhu-li should he chronicKd m thr Kecord," hut on 
Iviiu- i(>. iSwi,.it St. Johns ru>test.int I' piseop.d 
(."lunch at >otk.l mairicd Maty Kich.irdson Sn\all, 
o( this citv. \\\' h.i\c three children : Mary K., 
Ui^cvl eiv^ht, (iev'ii^e S.. ji.,ai_\ed tiye, aiul S.uuuel S., 
rt^ed three, who lu>ld tlu- w\>ild's lecoul toi he.uitN', 
HMiiubility. .uul otlui mheiited traits. 

In thiiigs ecclesiastical, I am rtt\ F.piscc^pallan, 
I'or some vears I was actiyely ii\tereste<l in politics; 
\yus chairn\un ot the Kepuhlie.iit Covinty (.onunittcc 
tor tiye years, .uul .i iKlei.'.ite tiom this C'ongressional 



I'l^KSONAL r,IO(,HArilII';S OJ' SI 

(iistricl If) ilic N.'ition.'il KcpuMic.-in ('onvcntion 
wliicli nonimatcd Mr. Ihinison to (he I'rcsidcocy ; 
l)u( of l;i(c ycuis have Ii.kI neither the lime nf^r tlic; 
i)i( liiialioii l(j j.nve polilic. riiiicli a(t<tilif>ii. I ani a 
Iiietiiher f)| 1 lie I ,a layette ( Jul), t lie Out \ )()<)V ( !lul), 
aii<l tlie ( OiKilry ( lul), and for '.otne ycai's Imvc heeii 
iDcntally wiihalanccd on golf. The fever is still on 
mc. 

I expect to aflend tlie Reunion in jiint-. 

Sotnc years ajL'/), I )ot went into part nei'.liij) with 
<jnc of the oldest and Ix-'.t kiifjwn lawyer', in York. 
I lis partner, we understand, afterward died, a/id 
he lias since carried on the hnsinc-ss, which is said 
to l>e a very lar^e and prodfaMe one. Cjrove (who 
is not to !)(• held responsiMe ff>i the ahove statement, 
because he did ikjI make it) writes that S(limidt is 
now the leading corpfjiation lawyer of the county. 

jack I^Owler says he ran across him, a few months 
ago, at the Waldorf, — their first meeting since leav- 
in^j; colle/.n: ; and that "he had ( ha.nj.^red hnt little 
and still has the same studious look." 



T. B. srriNranRMAN 

•'Some pioii,! drops ih': (lonin;' eye ic<jiiirc8, " 

Schneideman lives in rhiladelphia and is a dr)rfor. 
His practice is limited tf> diseases fjf the eye. 

He holds a chair in the Philadelphia l^)ly(linic 



AFTER TWENTY YEARS 

and College for Graduates in Medicine, — that of 
Professor of Diseases of the Eye. He is consulting 
ophthalmologist to several other institutions, and is 
a member of various medical organizations, general 
and special. 

He is not married. 




IRWIN B. SCHULTZ 

The fatal epidemic of fever which visited the col- 
lege in the spring of 1880 claimed two victims from 
our class, Schultz being one of them. His death 
came as a shock to all his classmates. He was known 

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THE ISABELLA McCOSH INFIRMARY. 




THE CHEMICAL LABORATORY. 



PERSONAL BIOGRAPHIES OF '81 

to be ill at the time the college was hastily closed, 
early in June; but his death did not occur until the 
28th. He had an unusually bright mind, a warm 
heart, and an alert, sunny manner which won and held 
friendship ; and his loss was very sincerely felt. 




ARTHUR H. SCRIBNER 

I have one event of importance to add to my re- 
port in the last Record, — my marriage, a little more 
than a year ago, in January, 1900, in New York 
City, to Miss Helen Culbertson Annan, also of 

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AFTER TWENTY YEARS 

New York. Her father was a graduate of Prince- 
ton, first honor man of his class, so that she appre- 
ciates and shares my affection for my Alma Mater. 
My residence is lo West Forty-third Street, New 
York. 

There has been no change in the firm of Charles 
Scribner's Sons, ot which I am a member, except 
that we have moved to a building of our own at i 55 
Fitth Avenue. I have been fortunate enough to be 
able to get awav from mv work for several trips 
abroad ; last summer crossing on the same steamer 
with Frank Landon and his wife, and three years ago 
making the trip with Paul van Dyke, when we spent 
most ot our time wheeling through the Tyrol and 
Switzerland. 

Politics: Independent Republican. 
Religious afiiliation : Presbyterian ; Brick Church 
of New York. 
Clubs : 

The Princeton Club of New York. 

The Century. 

The University. 

The Grolier. 

The Racquet. 

The Aldine. 

The Seawanhaka Yacht Club. 

The Morris County Golf Club. 

The Ardsley. 

The Triton Fishing and Shooting Club. 
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PERSONAL BI0GRAPHIP:S OF '81 

I keep in touch with a good many of the old fel- 
lows, and my Princeton associations continue to be 
an increasing pleasure to me. 

Unless the unexpected happens, 1 shall certainly 
be at the Class Reunion in June. 

One of his classmates, whose name the committee 
will not divulge under torture, remarks : 

" Since Arthur Scribner became a supremely 
happy married man, he has given evidence of a con- 
tented spirit by an increase in stature which is be- 
ginning to attract attention. It might be better for 
his figure if his happiness came harder." 



HENRY SAYRE SCRIBNER 

'* Oh ! ye who teach the ingenious youth of nations, 
Holland, France, England, Germanv or Spain, 
I pray ye, flog them upon all occasions ; 

It mends their morals, — never mind the pain." 

After graduation, I taught four years, and in the 
fall of 1885 entered the Johns Hopkins University 
and for three years engaged in graduate studies. In 
1888 1 went abroad and remained nearly a year, 
studying at the University of Giittingen, and travel- 
ling. Since 1890 I have occupied the chair of 
(jrreek in the Western University of Pennsylvania, 
Allegheny, Pa., and have also taught English liter- 

^2>7 



AFTER TWENTY YEARS 

ature, — to my own delectation, though at the ex- 
pense of concentration on my specialty. I am also 
secretary of the Faculty. My duties here have en- 




grossed my time to such an extent that I have not 
as yet published any magnum opus, though I occa- 
sionally contribute to the city papers, as well as 
to the Presbyterian Banner. In 1899 ^ had charge 
of the Greek work in the Chautauqua Summer 
School. 

I was married in Plainfield, N. J., to Miss Mary 
Lee Myers, December 28, 1891. We have two 
boys, — Henry Lee, born March 29, 1893, ^^^ 

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PERSONAL BIOGRAPHIES OF '81 

Joseph Myers, born June 14, 1897. ^Y li^^ dur- 
ing the last two decades has been happy and un- 
eventful. My home is in Ben Avon, a beautiful 
little borough on the Ohio, five miles below Alle- 
gheny. I regret that I have met very few '81 men 
since graduation, 

I have been an elder in the Emsworth Presbyte- 
rian Church in Ben Avon for several years. I vote 
the Republican ticket in national politics, but with 
a good many mental reservations. The Quay re- 
gime in Pennsylvania is not calculated to make a 
Princeton man very enthusiastic in politics. 

I fear that my duties will prevent my being at the 
Class Reunion in June, though I shall certainly be 
with you in spirit. 

HENRY C. SELHEIMER 

My Decennial report recorded me as a lawyer, 
practising in Birmingham, Ala. Since then I have 
been continuously engaged in the practice of my 
profession in the same city, and from the lawyer's 
point of view have been successful. In September, 
1899, I formed a partnership with former Circuit 
Judge James J. Banks, which association has been 
very pleasant and will probably be of long duration. 
My present business address is, Rooms 401-403 
Jefferson County Savings Bank Building, Birming- 
ham. I am neither married nor engaged to be mar- 

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AFTER TWENTY YEARS 

ried. I have never held anv pubhc or poHtical of- 
fice, or position of particular honor or trust, but 
have refused an offered appointment to a judgeship, 




and have recently been nominated bv the Dem- 
ocratic convention of my county as a delegate to the 
Constitutional Convention to be held in May, 1901, 
to frame a new constitution for the State. I am a 
Democrat in politics, rather weak in partisanship, 
and strong in independent proclivities on national 
issues. I have led a quiet, uneventful, yet, profes- 
sionally speaking, successful life. I presume we can 
all look back into the past and see where we have 

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missed opportunities or failed to wring from cir- 
cumstances the utmost of good and effect the best 
results. I have enjoyed good health, and my con- 
science does not accuse me when I recall my deal- 
ings with my fellow-men during the past twenty 
years. For the rest, while I have not brought par- 
ticular honor upon my class, I have not, I hope, 
disgraced it. 

I fear it will be impossible for me to attend the 
Class Reunion in June. I anticipate much pleasure 
from reading the Class Record, and will eagerly 
await it. I see so few of the boys here that I am 
almost ignorant of the doings or whereabouts of 
any of them. 

JOHN IRWIN SHAW 

" Fatty " Shaw, with others, was escorted with 
great pomp to Princeton Junction in February of 
Freshman year by the Class of '80, and went to his 
home, near Pittsburg. He did not return to col- 
lege, but afterward engaged in the business of pho- 
tographic materials and supplies in Pittsburg. He 
has since gone into politics, and is a member of the 
lower house of the Pennsylvania Legislature from 
Allegheny, where he now lives. He is a strong 
Quay supporter. He is married and has a family. 



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JAMES P. SHAW 

Poor Shaw's tragic death, at the time of the fever 
epidemic in Princeton, startled the college and the 
community, and made a deep impression on the 
class. He died on May 26, 1880. 



ROBERT ROGERS SHELLABARGER 

Died of typhoid fever, in Washington, D. C, 
January 10, 1889, in the thirtieth year of his age. 

After leaving college, Shellabarger went to Europe 
with Danforth for the summer, and, returning, be- 

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PERSONAL BIOGRAPHIES OF '81 

gan the study of law in his father's office in Wash- 
ington. He was duly admitted to practice, and 
became a junior member in his father's firm of 




Shellabarger & Wilson. He soon came to be re- 
garded as a young lawyer of exceptional brilliancy 
and promise. On June 17, 1886, he was married 
to Miss Sara Rivera Wood, and was the father of 
two children, — Mildred, who was born March 12, 
1887, and died in July of the same year, and Sam- 
uel, Jr., born May 18, 1888. His wife died on 
June 23, 1892. 



243 




GEORGE M. SINCLAIR 

After graduation I spent a year in general busi- 
ness and looking around, and then took the engi- 
neering course at the Stevens Institute of Technol- 
ogy, Hoboken, N. J., receiving the degree of M.E. 
in '84. I afterward received the degree of A.M. 
from Princeton. Since '84 I have been employed 
in practising mechanical engineering, and have held 
positions with the Midvale Steel Company, Nice- 
town, Philadelphia, and the Bethlehem Iron Com- 
pany. Outside of these engagements I have indulged 
in a little manufacturing on my own account, first in 

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a small electrical business, later in machine-building. 
My present company, the Philadelphia Machine 
Tool Company, is engaged in the designing and 
construction of presses and machinery for working 
sheet-metals, testing-machines and special machines. 

It may be of interest to add that the problem of 
carving gold dollars out of cast iron is almost as dif- 
ficult to solve as the old i6 to i puzzle. 

I am not married or engaged. I am a Republi- 
can of a liberal hue, and a Presbyterian, though 
hardly of the (Princeton) Seminole tribe. 

If all goes well, 1 shall surely show up at Prince- 
ton in June. 



JOHN BONNER SKINNER 

" Thou troublest me ; I am not in the vein." 

Bonner gives us the marble heart. In reply to 
the circular itself, he sent the following chilly statis- 
tics : 

Business address, 16 Montauk Block, Chicago. 
Residence, 159 Cass Street. 
Lawyer. 

Married. February i, 1887. Jane L. Barnard. 
No children. 
Republican. 

Hope to. [Apropos of attending the Reunion.] 
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AFTER TWENTY YEARS 

In response to two fervent appeals for more and 
hotter air, Skinner frostily answers : 




" I know of nothing further to tell you. I have 
been eating three meals a day and sleeping about 
eight hours, with marked regularity. Still, I do not 
suppose this fact will particularly interest my class- 
mates, who have probably at times done things 
equally commonplace." 



246 




EDWARD H. SMALL 

" Better to hunt in fields for health unbought 
Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught." 

Hannah studied medicine at the University of 
Pennsylvania, and then for a year was resident physi- 
cian and surgeon in the West Penn Hospital in 
Pittsburg. He then spent a year abroad, " walk- 
ing the hospitals in London, Berlin and Vienna, and 
incidentally travelling about." On his return, he at 
first settled in Allegheny City, Pa., where he re- 
mained for two years and a half; then decided to 
move to Pittsburg, built a residence with offices 

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AFTER TWENTY YEARS 

there, and has been there ever since. His address 
is corner of Penn and Negley Avenues. He has 
held the position of Lecturer on the Diseases of 
Children, at the West Penn Medical College, and 
has had charge of the same department in the dis- 
pensary connected with that institution. He has 
also been Assistant Gynaecologist to the Pittsburg 
Free Dispensary. Four years ago he was chairman 
of the Section on Diseases of Children, of the Amer- 
ican Medical Association. He is on the medical 
staff of the West Penn Hospital and of the Pitts- 
burg Hospital for Children. 

He was married April 2t, 1897, to Elizabeth 
Tirdle, of Pittsburg. 

" In politics I am a Republican mostly," he 
writes. " I hardly think that I shall be able to at- 
tend the Class Reunion ; but if things turn out so 
that I may, I will notify you." 

The chairman of the Record committee recently 
met a resident of Pittsburg, who knew Small's 
name at once, and spoke very highly of his practice 
and reputation, saying that he was greatly esteemed 
in that city. There seems to be nothing the matter 
with Hannah. 



248 




LEWIS H. STANTON 

On leaving college I went to Minnesota for my 
health, and from 1880 to 1890 resided in Stevens 
County, where I owned and operated a stock farm. 
In 1890 I came to New Orleans, and entered the 
banking and brokerage house of my father-in-law, 
Mr. Gideon Townsend. A few years later I be- 
came a member of the firm of G. Townsend & Co., 
and on the retirement of Mr. Townsend from busi- 
ness, formed, with the remaining member of G. 
Townsend & Co., the firm of Stanton & Littlefield, 
stock and bond brokers. 

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AFTER TWENTY YEARS 

On April 19, 1881, at Christ Church, New Or- 
leans, I married Miss Adele Cephise Townsend. 
My eldest child was born in January, 1882, and 
given the name of his grandfather, Edwin M. 
Stanton. Cora van Voorhis was born in July, 1 883 ; 
Gideon Townsend, July, 1885; and Mary Ashley 
Townsend, June, 1889. My family circle has re- 
mained unbroken by death and all enjoy good health. 

In politics 1 am a Republican; in religion, an 
Episcopalian, and a vestryman of Christ Church 
Cathedral. 

I will not have the pleasure of attending the Class 
Reunion to be held next June, my journeys north 
only being made in the late summer or early fall. 

Cordial greetings to all classmates who hold me 
in remembrance, and assurances of a hearty welcome, 
should chance bring any of them my way. 



JAMES B. STOKES 

Stokes was connected with the class only for a short 
time. After leaving he engaged in the steel business 
in California. He afterward retired from this, and is 
now living in New York City, his address being the 
Racquet Club, 27 West Forty-third Street. He 
spends his summers in Newport. He is still un- 
married. 



250 




WILLIAM N. STRONG 

Strong died, suddenly, of pneumonia, on June 6, 
1892, in Brooklyn, N. Y. 

After leaving college, he studied law in Washing- 
ton at the Law School of Columbia University, 
graduating in 1883. He went to St. Paul, Minn., 
where he practised law for several years ; but the 
climate not agreeing with him he returned East, 
and at the time of his death was with Davies, Short 
& Townsend, in New York City. 

He was married on November 3, 1886, at Wash- 
ington, to Miss Josephine Douglass ; Rev. Richard 
D. Harlan officiating and Grier Monroe being best 

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AFTER TWENTY YEARS 

man. A child, William Strong, Jr. (named after his 
grandfather, the late Justice William Strong, of the 
United States Supreme Court), was born August 20, 
1887, and from boyhood has nevet swerved in his 
determination to enter Princeton and afterward to 
follow in his father's professional footsteps. 




FRANK R. SYMMES 

"Oh, earlv ripe ! to thy abundant store 
What could advancing age have added more ? " 

The Decennial Record of our class found me pas- 
tor of the "Old Tennent Church" (Presbyterian), 

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PERSONAL BIOGRAPHIES OF '81 

on the historic ground of the battle of Monmouth. 
I am still pastor of this church and have written a 
history of its two hundred years of life, which was 
printed in book form in 1897. 

On September 26, 1893, I married Miss Eliza- 




Old Tennent Church, New Jersey, Built in 175 1. 
Rev. Frank R. Symmes, Pastor. 

beth Smith Jewell, in Asbury Park, N. J. We 
have two little girls, — Dorothy, born September i, 
1894, and Marion, born August 15, 1895. 

I cannot say whether I shall attend the Class Re- 
union, but I want a copy of the twenty years' Record 
when it is ready. 

253 




HENRY C. THOM 

1. Residence, 5014 Morgan Street, St. Louis, 
Mo. Business address, care Swift & Co., National 
Stock Yards, St. Clair County, 111. 

2. Since report in '91 : Manager Swift & Co., 
Kansas City, February, '92, to January, '97, inclu- 
sive ; manager Swift & Co., National Stock Yards, 
February, '97, to date. July, '96, malarial fever 
and general breakdown ; August, '96, to January, 
'97, inclusive, recovering in foot-hills of Big Horn 
Mountains, Wvoming. 

3. Married, September 23, 1891, at St. Charles, 

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PERSONAL BIOGRAPHIES OF '81 

Mo., to Julia Goebel. One child, Margaret, born 
July 14, 1892. 

4. None. 

5. Republican. Episcopalian. No clubs. 

6. If possible, will attend Reunion. 

7. Vlymen visited me few days, end of '99. 
Heard of Vanderburgh in Minneapolis in '94. He 
was then at hotel with his bride. No one else, since 
Walsh called on me, somewhere about '84. 



CHARLES GRANT TITSWORTH 

After leaving college, I studied law in my father's 
office in Newark, N. J., and attended the Columbia 
Law School in New York, graduating from that 
school in 1884 and receiving the degree of LL.B. 
In the same year I received the degree of A.M., 
from Princeton. I at once entered into a law part- 
nership with my father, ex-Judge C. S. Titsworth, 
and after his death, in 1886, continued practice alone 
till 1888, when 1 entered into partnership with E. 
M. Colie, one of the leading lawyers of the State. 

In 1889, my health broke down, and I went to 
Colorado to endeavor to regain it. I was in a serious 
condition physically when I wrote my report for the 
Decennial Record, and my tenure of life seemed 
precarious. From 1891, however, I began to im- 
prove in health. I made Denver my home, and re- 
mained there until 1896, becoming practically a well 

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AFTER TWENTY YEARS 

man. I was admitted to the Colorado Bar, prac- 
tised law in Denver, and was also interested in real 
estate operations. 

In the spring of '95, while there, I was nomi- 




nated for City Supervisor, in a municipal' reform 
movement. We knew little of current political 
methods, and as they were not to our liking, we ran 
our campaign in our own way. We had the argu- 
ments, but our opponents threw the usual amount 
of dust in the people's eyes, some of our political 
friends who professed conversion sold out, and we 
were beaten. I led my ticket, and was afterward 

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PERSONAL BIOGRAPHIES OF '81 

told, by an opponent who ought to know, that some 
of our candidates had unquestionably been elected 
but had been counted out. 

In the fall of the same year we organized another 
reform movement to control the county election. I 
was forced to take the chairmanship of the campaign 
committee, and had the entire management of the 
campaign. We succeeded in electing half in num- 
ber of the principal officers of the county. 

In 1896 t returned to Newark, and have made it 
my home since. I entered again into partnership 
with Mr. Colie, and with Francis J. Swayze, who 
had succeeded me in the partnership when I went 
West. I remained in the firm until June, 1899, 
when I withdrew to accept the position of Title 
Officer of the Fidelity Trust Company, of Newark. 
I have the management of that department of the 
company's business which pertains to the examining 
and guaranteeing of real estate titles throughout 
New Jersey. As all titles passed by the company 
must be approved by me, real estate law has become 
my specialty. 

My residence is in Newark; my business ad- 
dress, the Prudential Building in that city. I am 
single, and am not engaged ; am a Republican in 
politics, and a Presbyterian in religion. I am a mem- 
ber of the Newark Athletic Club; the Newark 
Academy Alumni Association, of which latter I am 
treasurer ; the Princeton Club, the University Club 

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AFTER TWENTY YEARS 

and the Lawyers' Club, all of Newark. 1 am also 
a trustee of the Job Haines Home for Aged Peo- 
ple, a director in the Bureau of Associated Charities, 
and a trustee of the First Presbyterian Church. 
I expect to attend the Reunion in June. 

Later. — C. G. T. writes subsequently : 

There is a change to be made in mv report. I 

said I was single and was not engaged. 1 am now 

engaged to Miss Elizabeth L. Dawson, of Newark. 

This is a very recent development. 

Later Still. — C. G. T. expects to be married on 

the fourth day of June. 



GEORGE G. TOWNSEND 

Townsend lives down in Frostburg, Md. After 
graduation, he obtained a position as leveller and 
draughtsman in one of the engineering corps en- 
gaged in locating and constructing the Pittsburg and 
Western Railroad. He later entered the employ of 
the Cumberland & Pennsylvania Railroad Company 
as draughtsman for their locomotive works at Mt. 
Savage, Md. After a short digression into the 
patent-medicine business, he returned to engineer- 
ing, and was employed by the Consolidation Coal 
Company, of Cumberland, in making maps and 
plans of their coal properties in Maryland. 

Since then he has invented a certain " pin-puller " 
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PERSONAL BIOGRAPHIES OF '81 

for mine-cars, and seems to have a pull with Dame 
Fortune in consequence. Despite three illustrated 
diagrams at the top of his letter-head, and several 




enthusiastic testimonials on the back of the sheet 
("after taking but three times," etc.), the committee 
regrets that it is still unable to explain to the class 
what a pin-puller is ; but we have not the least doubt 
that it is an extremely good thing. 

George writes a cheerful letter, as follows : 

Upon my return from Washington, I found 
your second letter asking for information for the 

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AFTER TWENTY YEARS 

Class Record. I must apologize for not having 
answered the first one. 1 was wrestling with the 
grip when 1 received it, and didn't care whether the 
class had any Record or not ; after I regained my 
usual frame of mind, I could not find it (the letter, 
not the mind), and so neglected to fill out the blank 
contained therein (the letter, not the mind). 

1. My address is, Box 275, Frostburg, Md. 

2. My occupation is civil and mining engineering. 

3. Am married. My wife's maiden name was 
Neenah Dodge, of Georgetown, D. C. Ceremony 
took place at St. John's Church, Georgetown, Oc- 
tober 165 1884. We have two children, — George 

Gale, born November 
14, 1886, and Emily 
Heath, born January 29, 
1888. 

4. See letter-head and 
testimonials on other side 
of sheet. 

5. Republican; Prot- 

Townscnd Pin-Fuller— Entering Tit>ple CStant EpisCOpaHan; 

[We suppose this refers to a cock- Corresponding Secretary 
tail.-Eds.] ^^ ^^^ Y. M. C. A. 

6. I want to attend the Class Reunion, but can- 
not plan so far ahead. 

7. I cannot give any information about '81 men, 
as I never see any of them except in the glass. 

I am pained to notice that Allen, Flick and I are 
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PERSONAL BIOGRAPHIES OF '81 

classed with the common herd, notwithstanding all 
our hard work in mathematics, drawing, field-work, 
etc., etc., while Billy Bacot, who was never known 
to do anything but make bad puns, is designated on 
your list as a C. E. Please find enclosed a blank 
check to pay for having those two letters placed 
after my name, if it is not too late. 

[With reference to the photograph of himself 
which graces this account, Townsend remarks :] 

About a year ago I received a letter from Alex. 
Hudnut asking for my latest photograph for this 
year's Record. As I did not have a very recent 
picture, I had one taken by our special artist on the 
spot, and sent it to him. Shortly after he received 
it, he sent me word that what he wanted was a pict- 
ure taken lately. I wonder how old he thinks I 
am. Don't let him tamper with that photo, or 
palm it off on some unsuspecting girl for one of his 
own. 

GEORGE L. VAN ALEN 

*' Of right and wrong, he taught 
Truths as refined as ever Athens heard; 
And (strange to tell!) he practised what he preached." 

My " residence and address " are Blackwood, 
Camden County, N.J. After graduation from col- 
lege, I spent a year in a bank. In the fall of 1882 
I entered Princeton Theological Seminary, and 

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AFTER TWENTY YEARS 

graduated in 1885. Since then I have been preach- 
ing as a Presbyterian minister. For the first ten 
years of my ministry I preached at Watsontown, 




Pa., occupying for a part of the time the pulpit of 
the church near by, at Montgomery, Pa. In 1893 ^ 
was called to the Mt. Airy Presbyterian Church, of 
Germantown, Pa,, where I preached until 1896. 
Resigning that charge, I spent some months travel- 
ling in Europe. I have since taken charge of the 
First Presbyterian Church of Blackwood, N. J., 
which church celebrated her sesquicentennial of ex- 
istence last falL 

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PERSONAL BIOGRAPHIES OF '81 



I was married on June 26, 1889, at Montgom- 
ery, Pa., to Miss May D. Henderson. Three chil- 
dren have been born 
to us, — Oakley Hen- 
derson Van Alen, 
July 29, 1893; Am- 
brose Henderson 
Van Alen, July 11, 
1898, and Cornelia 
Burrows Van Alen, 
November 4, 1899. 

My politics are Republican, and my " religious 
affiliations " are Presbyterian. I count on attending 
the Class Reunion in June. 




First Presbyterian Church, Blackwood. 
Rev. Geo. L. Van Alen, Pastor. 



W^ILLIAM H. VANDERBURGH 

" There have been holy men who hid themselves 
Deep in the woody wilderness, and gave 
Their lives to thought and prayer ; 

And there have been holv men 
Who deem.'dit were not well to pass life thus," 

After graduation, I came out and settled in my 
native city, Minneapolis, and entered into possession 
of a large estate inherited from my grandfather My- 
gatt, of Chenango County, N. Y. I built, in '81, 
the first modern office-building ever put up in this 
city. I studied law for two years in St. Paul, and 
engaged in real estate operations in St. Paul, Min- 

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AFTER TWENTY YEARS 

neapolis and Duluth. I went to the Columbia Law 
School, graduating there in 1885, and was admitted 
to the Minnesota Bar soon after. 




I was at that time elected director in the North- 
western National Bank of Minneapolis, and contin- 
ued in that capacity until 1893. ^" 1887 I closed 
out my speculative real estate holdings " on top of 
the boom " at an immense profit ; but four years 
later, embarking $550,000 cash in Richmond Ter- 
minal shares (to-day known as the Southern Rail- 
road), I was unable to hold on in the panic of '93, 
and lost all. 

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PERSONAL BIOGRAPHIES OF '81 

Meanwhile, 1 took no less than fifteen trips to 
Europe, remaining all the way from three to eighteen 
months each visit. In the summer of '85, I walked 
all through Switzerland, with Dave Breckinridge ; 
and again spent a whole year and a half with him in 
'87 and '88, travelling over Europe, — and we had 
the greatest time on record ! 

In 1894 I was married to Mile. Jeanne Ferret, of 
Paris, France, — a cousin of Paul Deschanel, the dis- 
tinguished French statesman ; the religious cere- 
mony taking place January 31st, and the civil, Feb- 
ruary 1st. From 1894 to 1898 I lived in New York, 
trying to gain back fortune in Wall Street, but times 
were not propitious. In 1898, my father, the late 
Judge Vanderburgh, Minnesota's best known jurist, 
died, having served continuously during the first 
thirty-five years of the history of the State ; and I 
came to Minneapolis to take charge of his estate as 
one of the executors. The bulk of his estate was 
bequeathed to religious organizations. I have con- 
siderable real estate interests in Minneapolis requir- 
ing my attention, 

I have two children : a girl, Francine Mygatt, 
aged four, and a boy, Charles E., ad, aged one. 
I belong to the St. Paul Town and Country Club, 
and the Minnesota Club, St. Paul. In politics, I 
changed from Republican to Democrat on the silver 
issue, and voted for Bryan in 1896 and 1900. In 
the latter year I took an active part in politics in 

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AFTER TWENTY YEARS 

this county, running for the Democratic nomination 
for Congress at the primary election ; and made 
such a satisfactory showing that there appears to be 
ground for thinking that I have a good chance for 
nomination in 1902. 

My residence address is 923 Seventh Street South, 
Minneapohs. 1 have no business address. I ex- 
pect to be at the Reunion in June. 

PAUL VAN DYKE 

" My Lord St. Albans said that Nature did never put her pre- 
cious jewels into a garret four stories high, and therefore that ex- 
ceeding tall men had ever very emptv heads." 

The fall after graduation I entered the Princeton 
Theological Seminary, from which I graduated in 
due course three years later. Shortly after, I sailed 
for Germany, where I remained until the fall of the 
next year, except for a trip in the spring to Italy. 
I was enrolled as a student of the University of 
Berlin, taking courses in the History of Art and 
the Life of Christ. 

After my return I remained at home for eighteen 
months, preaching and writing. In the spring of 
1887 I was installed as pastor of the North Presby- 
terian Church of Geneva, N. Y. ; and two years later 
was called to Princeton Theological Seminary, to 
take charge of the Department of Church History. 
I resigned three years later, in the spring of 1892. 

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PERSONAL BIOGRAPHIES OF '81 

The reasons for my resignation are sufficiently in- 
dicated in the following letter : 

To THE Board of Directors of Princeton Theo- 
logical Seminary, 
Gentlemen : I beg leave to resign into your hands the 
Department of Church History which has been under my 




sole charge for three years. In so doing I feel it my duty 
to make a frank statement of the reasons which lead me to 
retire from the service of Princeton. 

It has been brought to my knowledge, in a manner which 
precludes all doubt, that no man can be elected to a pro- 
fiessorship in this mstitution with the full approval of the 
present teaching force, unless he makes a distinct and un- 

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AFTER TWENTY YEARS 

equivocal a\owal that he accepts "the standards of our 
church in the sense which has always been put upon them 
bv the fathers, founders, and former professors of this sem- 
inary," that "he will conform his teachings thereto," and 
that he "will introduce no new departure in this respect." 
Such an a\owal I should not be willing to make under any 
circumstances or for anv purpose. 

1. It is unnecessary and unconstitutional. The \ows 
imposed on professors bv the Church are sufficient, and I 
should find no difficulty in taking them. But I could not 
reconcile it to mv conscience to make such an additional 
avowal of lovaltv to a partv or tradition, because I believe 
that its exaction is not apt to promote the peace, uiiitv, or 
prosperity of our Church. 

2. It seems to me to destroy libert\' of speech and per- 
sonal initiative, and to impose an obligation impossible to 
fulfil. I am unable to understand how the teaching of 
church history can be conformed to a traditional sense put 
upon the Westminster Standards by certain men. 

3. It is evident that it includes a promise of support to a 
doctrine which is at present under discussion, i.e., pret- 
erition. 

Now I believe the Calvinistic theology to be the best 
which the human mind has constructed, but I do not be- 
lieve that preterition is essential to Calvinism, and I should 
not be willing to make it a test of orthodoxy. In regard 
to this point, while I ha\'e never been conscious of any want 
of harmony with the spirit, method or teaching of my re- 
vered preceptor. Dr. A. A. Hodge, it may be that I am not 
in perfect harmony with the present spirit and teaching of 
professors in this seminary. If so, it is certainly not due to 
any change on my part. 

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PERSONAL BIOGRAPHIES OF '81 

For these reasons I should always decline to make any 
such avowal as that to which I have referred. The 
knowledge that it is expected of me is in fact the reason 
why I must ask you not to consider my name in connec- 
tion with the future of the Department of Church History. 
This withdrawal leaves you free to fill the chair in accord- 
ance with the policy of the faculty, and leaves me free to 
serve the Church according to the dictates of my con- 
science. I remain, gentlemen, yours very respectfully, 

Paul van Dyke. 

At the same time that this letter was read, testi- 
monials from the three classes of the seminary were 
laid before the Board of Directors, expressing appre- 
ciation of my methods of instruction, and using the 
kindest terms about my personal relations to them. 
They were accompanied by a memorial and a peti- 
tion adopted in a mass-meeting of the students and 
presented by a committee, asking that I be continued 
in the service of the seminary. These papers were 
signed by more than nine-tenths of the students en- 
rolled in the seminary. 

The Board of Directors accepted my letter of 
withdrawal, with a kindly resolution of personal re- 
gard. I have recorded at some length this episode, 
because I thought it might be of interest to my class- 
mates to know that I had enjoyed the great privilege 
of being able to make a protest in behalf of the free- 
dom of academic teaching, which is now so firmly 
estabHshed in Princeton University, 

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AFTER TWENTY YEARS 

I accepted immediately a call to the Edwards 
Congregational Church of Northampton, Mass., 
where I spent six very happy years of work, being 
helped in the last three by one of my former stu- 
dents of the seminary. 

In the spring of 1898 I was much surprised by 
being asked to consider a call to the chair of His- 
tory in Princeton University, formerly occupied by 
Professor Sloane. The call was made, and two 
members of the Seminary faculty on the Board of 
Trustees voted for it. I accepted it, with the un- 
derstanding that my particular field was to be Mod- 
ern European History, from the fourteenth century 
to the present time. And I have since been very 
happily engaged in the work of the chair. 

I am unmarried, but have built a little house on 
the end of Library Place, where I shall always be 
glad to see my classmates. Williams College gave 
me the degree of D.D. in 1898. I have published 
a book entitled " The Age of the Renascence." 
My vacations have been spent in hunting, fishing, 
walking, bicycling, and travelling abroad. 



270 




WILLIAM T. VLYMEN 

" • Then here 's to another! ' says he, * to make sure. 

For there's luck in odd numbers,' says Rory O'More." 

Your notice of the close approach of our twen- 
tieth- anniversary has brought to my attention the 
unpleasant fact that I am getting old. Up to now 
I have refused to consider any such possibility, but 
your cold and searching questions on the retrospect 
compel me to face the situation. 

That reminds me that my eldest boy will be ready 
for College in 1902, and the next in 1903. After 
these, the series reaches so far that preparations for 
a new dormitory should be no longer delayed. 

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AFTER TWENTY YEARS 

My eldest girl starts for College in I90i,and the 
next in 1903. After that, — the deluge. 

As you will see by the horribly long list accom- 
panying this, I am fortunate enough to have a fam- 
ily. The children are all strong and healthy. I 
could give in proof statistics that would be interest- 
ing, but I fear lest to some weak brother they 
might be a discourager of matrimonv. Suffice it 
that, though 1 am both bald and gray, — paradox- 
ical but true, — I have been able to provide for our 
hungry brood bread every day, with butter on 
Sundays. 

All the years since leaving College, I have been 
engaged in teaching. I am happy to say that suc- 
cess seems to have attended mv efforts. My pres- 
ent position, I know, I would not exchange for any 
other in the profession. It is my happiness to think 
that my advice has led and will continue to lead a 
number of boys to Princeton. 

My writings, except a few articles for educational 
magazines, have been confined to humble but neces- 
sary school-books. I have just completed the Co- 
lumbus Readers in four books (Schwartz, Kirwin & 
Fauss, New York) and an edition of Tennyson's 
"Idylls of the King" (Macmillan, New York). 

The Christmas holidays of '99 I had the pleasure 
of spending with Thom in St. Louis. He has a 
charming wife and a lovely daughter. He is happy 
and prosperous. We read over the Class Record 

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together, and made additional comments where we 
had the necessary information. 

" Deacon Bradbury " is in use by nearly all the 
members of our family. We intend to train the 
younger ones on it as a reading book as they grow 
up to it. I have read it with a great deal of pleas- 
ure, and I beg to congratulate Dix upon its success. 
Of late years I have not met very many men of 
our class. 1 want to give notice that if any '8i man 
happens along in Brooklyn, he will be welcomed by 
me with open arms. 

Business address : Driggs Avenue and South 
Third Street, Brooklyn, N. Y.; residence, Hemp- 
stead, N. Y. 

Occupation, Teacher. 

Teacher of Latin and Greek, Arnold School, 

New York, 1881-1885. 
Teacher of Latin and Greek, Lyon & Gilbert's 

Classical School, New York, 1885- 1886. 
Teacher of Latin and Greek, Boys' High 

School, Brooklyn, 1 886-1 888. 
Principal Intermediate School No. 7, Brooklyn, 

1888. 
Principal Grammar School No. 5, Brooklyn, 

1888-1898. 
Associate Superintendent of Schools, Brooklyn, 

1 898-1 900. 
Principal Eastern District High School, Brook- 
lyn, 1900 to date. 

273 



AFTER TWENTY YEARS 

Married to Miss Felicita Richmond, Newark, N. 
J., July 7, 1883, 

Children: Josephine, born April 14, 1884. 

Henry Thorn, September i, 1885. 

William, January 3, 1887. 

Helen, June 19, i888. 

Mary, January 20, 1890. 

John, August 19, 1891. 

Lawrence, December 26, 1892. 

Arthur, May 6, 1894. 

Felicita, January 22, 1896. 

Frederick, July 9, 1897; died, July 
21, 1898. 

Harriet, July 29, 1898. 

Edward, February 16, 1900. 
Degree: Ph.D., New York University, 1891. 
Religion : Roman Catholic. 
Clubs : Princeton Club, New York ; Columbian 
Club, Brooklyn. 

Politics : Democrat. 

I have a very lively expectation of attending the 
Class Reunion in June. 

J. SPENCER VOORHEES 

" This goin' ware glorv waits ye hain't one agreeable feetur'." 

On graduation from college, I went to Andover 
Seminary and graduated with the class of 1884. 
My first work in the ministry was to organize the 

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PERSONAL BIOGRAPHIES OF '81 

First Congregational Church of Huron, Dak., 
which soon became one of the leading churches of 
the State. After a year in Dakota, I returned to 




Andover and took a year of advanced study. Then 
I went out under the Congregational Home Mis- 
sionary Society and did three months' pioneer work 
in the wilds of Arizona, after which I went, at the 
request of that society, to Fresno, Cal., and brought 
the struggling missionary church of that place to self- 
support as the result of eight months' work. Then 
1 accepted an invitation from the State Committee 

2/5 



AFTER TWENTY YEARS 

of the Young Men's Christian Association to visit 
the colleges and leading schools of the State of Cal- 
ifornia and hold evangelistic meetings, organiz- 
ing, where practicable. Young Men's and Young 
Women's Christian Associations. I made the round 
with such a degree of success that I was urged to 
take for a year the position of State Secretary of the 
Y. M. C. A. After the close of this engagement, I 
was led to undertake missionary work in mining 
camps of the Rocky Mountains. In 1890 I organ- 
ized a Union church in Telluride, Col., 8,700 feet 
above sea-level, which has now been a flourishing, 
self-supporting church for ten years. When I went 
there the nearest railroad was forty-five miles away, 
and no religious services were being held in the 
county, with a population of over 1,500 people. 

[Voorhees was afterward in Denver, for a time, 
and later in Pueblo, Col. — Eds.] 

In 1892 I returned to the East and became pas- 
tor of the Second Congregational Church of Win- 
sted, Ct., one of the leading churches in that part 
of the State. After a five years' pastorate, I went 
abroad, returning in time to be appointed by the 
Governor of Connecticut Chaplain of the Third 
Connecticut Volunteer Infantry, to go into the 
" Yanko-Spanko " war. As the enemy were not 
sufliciently courageous to keep up the fight until 
we arrived, we were not permitted to fight, bleed 
and die for our country. After nine months of 

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camp life, we were mustered out, with experiences 
of various values. 

In the fall of 1899 I became pastor of the Ros- 
lindale Congregational Church, of Boston. We 
made memorable the 
closing year of the 
nineteenth century by 
raising a large debt 
and receiving a large 
number into the 
church. 

In politics I am an 
Independent. Living 

m Harvard and Yale Roslindale Congregational Church, Boston. 

territory, I seldom see ^^^- J- ^p'^""'' v°°''hees, Pastor. 
a Princeton man, but I ever keep the Orange and 
Black flying above the Crimson and the Blue, and en- 
joy championing " Old Nassau " on all occasions. I 
hope to meet many of the class at our Reunion next 
June. For the present, my place of business is 
Boston, and my residence is 37 Hawthorne Street, 
Roslindale Station, Boston, Mass. 




Voorhees's army experiences, which he curtails 
above, are given more fully in " Princeton in the 
Spanish-American War," a volume prepared at the 
request of the Faculty and published by authority of 
the Board of Trustees. From this it appears that 
he first reported for duty at Camp Haven, Conn., 

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AFTER TWENTY YEARS 

on June 24, 1898, and by July 7 the full regiment 
of 1,326 officers and men was mustered into the 
service, being the first regiment mustered in under 
the second call for volunteers. The summer was 
occupied with vigorous drills, and the men were put 
under thorough military discipline. On September 
9th they were transported to Camp Meade, Pa., and 
brigaded, belonging to the Second Brigade, First 
Division, Second Army Corps. Here the cold 
nights brought much suffering to the soldiers. Af- 
ter four days, Voorhees was sent home with typhoid 
fever, and was absent on sick leave for ten weeks. 
During five weeks of fever he lost weight at the 
alarming rate of a pound and a half a day ; but dur- 
ing his convalescence, the five weeks following, he 
nearly regained this loss. 

He returned to camp, and in November they 
were moved to Camp Marion, S. C, a more health- 
ful spot. Here they remained until February, 1899, 
when they were ordered to Camp Onward, near 
Savannah, Ga., with the expectation of embarking 
for Cuba for garrison duty. Orders for this were, 
however, revoked, and on March 20th the regiment 
was mustered out and Voorhees returned North. 



278 




HENRY B. WALSH 

" Cheerful at morn, he wakes from short repose. 
Breasts the keen air, and carols as he goes." 

Walsh, after leaving college, attended the Colum- 
bia Law School for a year, and then went to St. 
Paul, Minn., where he has lived ever since. He 
was successively connected with a firm of stationery 
importers, a wholesale plumbers' supply house, and 
the St. Paul Ice Company, of which he was secretary 
and treasurer. He was married, in that city, on 
October 12, 1886, to Miss Nellie A. Newson, and 
they have two children, Alexander Robertson, born 

279 



AFTER TWENTY YEARS 

October 6, 1890, and Edward Stanton, born Feb- 
ruary 18, 1892. 

Daddy eyidently tired of being the ice-man, for 
he writes : 

" I have changed business connections, being now 
an embryonic coal baron, (very embryonic,) and de- 
vote my time to the interests of the Northwestern 
Fuel Company, of St. Paul." In other respects, he 
goes on to say, " my history, so tar as subject to pub- 
lication, '•■ has been entirely uneventful during the 
past ten years, and would be largely a repetition of 
the '91 Record. 1 still live in St. Paul, still work for 
my living (which implies that my fortune is still fut- 
ure), am still married, (same wife as before,) have 
same children, — no, have one more, a boy, Edward 
Stanton, who was not on hand in '91. 

As of old, 1 am of Republican sympathies politi- 
cally ; and in religious matters, — well, I am one of 
the old-fashioned, orthodox variety that has not 
" progressed " much during the past twenty years. 
My personal contact with '81 men has been limited, 
and I regret that I will not be able to renew old ac- 
quaintance and old times, in June. 

* We have been unable to learn, from the Twin Cities' jiolice annals, 
what dark occurrences are alluded to in this mysterious reservation. — Eds. 



280 




HENRY D. WARREN 

1 reside at 95 Wellesley Street, Toronto, Can. 
My business address is 45-49 West Front Street. 

Since leaving college, with the exception of three 
years spent in England, I have been engaged in 
" pot-boiling " in the rubber business. [Warren is 
president and treasurer of the Gutta-Percha and Rub- 
ber Manufacturing Company of Toronto, Limited.] 

In June, 1887, I married Sara Trumbull Van 
Lennep ; and have fivechildren, — Trumbull, Helen, 
Carolyn, Harold, and Eric Alden. 

I have never done anything sufficiently " note- 
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AFTER TWENTY YEARS 

worthy " in my opinion to be worthy of pubHc 
record ; therefore must plead an alibi. 

I belong to all kinds of clubs, and for all kinds of 
purposes, except politics, for which I have no fancy. 
1 do not see enough of '8i men to be in possession 
of any information regarding them or their doings. 
As to my coming to the Reunion, I think it hardly 
likely that I shall be able to manage it. 



THOMAS D. WARREN 

" How various his employments, whom the world 
Calls idle, and who justly in return 
Esteems that busv world an idler too ! " 



Herkimer County Board of Supervisors 

T. D. WARREN, Chairman 



Columbia — 


Herkimer 


Manheim 


Schuvler 


T. D. Warren 


Litchfield 


Newport 


Stark 


Danube 


Little Falls (town) 


Norway 


Warren 


Fairtield 


Little Falls (city) 1st 


Ohio 


Webb 


Franktbrt 


Dist. 


Russia 


Wilmurt 


German Flats 


Little Falls (city) 2d Dist. 


Salisbury 


Winfield 



H. A. Crofoot, Clerk 
E. E. Richards, assistant clerk 



Mohawk, N. T., 1^0/. 

As I remarked ten years ago, I continue to reside 
in the rural districts, and have neglected to become 
married or engaged. Hence I don't have to pre- 
pare a list of my family for you now, with names 
and dates. One more instance of a great loss, with 
a small gain attached. Living in the country, 

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PERSONAL BIOGRAPHIES OF '81 

where expenses are light, and having only a small 
household, I don't have to do much. I frequently 
do not do much. I am often, however, quite busy. 




To express myself more clearly, I try, by attending 
strictly to business, to get along with as little work 
as possible. 

I am not, as I was ten years ago, a justice of the 
peace or a postmaster. I insisted on retiring from 
both positions. In that historic tableau, I repre- 
sented an island, — i. e.^ I was a body of insistence 
entirely surrounded by general regret. I am near 
the end of my fifth year as Supervisor of the town 

283 



AFTER TWENTY YEARS 

of Columbia, and have been chairman of the Her- 
kimer County Board of Supervisors for the past 
two years. I am a Freemason. My politics are 
Republican. 

I expect to attend the Class Reunion at Princeton 
in June. 

Robbins, as will be seen in his report, touches 
more at length on the post-office episode fleetingly 
alluded to in the above beautiful and striking met- 
aphor. — ^ Eds. 



JAMES AUGUSTUS WEBB, JR. 

Died of consumption at his home in Madison, 
N. J., April 6, 1887, in the twenty-eighth year of 
his age. 

We reprint the following from the Decennial 
Record : 

Shortly after graduation, in the summer of 1881, 
he entered into partnership with his father, James 
A. Webb, at 165 Pearl Street, New York City, and 
until the time immediately preceding his decease 
held an important position in the firm and com- 
mended himself to his associates in business as a 
man of executive ability and comprehensive ideas. 

On December 2, 1885, he was married to Miss 
Nellie Sanford Packard, at Springfield, Mass. 
Shortly after, at a time when his career was blossom- 

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PERSONAL BIOGRAPHIES OF '81 

ing with promise of eminence in the business world, 
his health became impaired, and he spent some 
months in the region of the Adirondacks, in a vain 
effort to regain his wonted vitahty and vigor. 




During his enforced retirement from active busi- 
ness Hfe in search of health, his conduct was marked 
by an abnegation of self and thoughtfulness of others 
which could spring only from sterling manhood and 
Christian consecration, coupled with the rarest forti- 
tude and patience in suffering. To perpetuate his 
memory, and crystallize the ideas that were upper- 
most in his mind at the time of his decease, his 

285 



AFTER TWENTY YEARS 

father has erected at Madison, N. J., a Memorial 
Chapel, which, by its artistic finish and simple gran- 
deur, will continue to recall a lite marked by like 
qualities, and at the same time furnish a meet op- 
portunity tor worship and devotion. 




HENRY BOARDMAN WELLES 

Welles died very suddenly, of hemorrhage of the 
lungs, October 30, 1890, at Las Cruces, N. M., 
aged thirty-two years. 

His sister wrote the Decennial Record Commit- 

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tee : " My mother being a widow, he was obliged 
to care for our estate, and therefore did not enter a 
profession. He had an attack of pleurisy soon after 
leaving college, and never fully recovered from the 
effects of that illness. In the spring of 1887 a lung 
trouble was developed, and we went in the summer 
to New Mexico, where he passed the last three 
years of his life. He improved very much, led an 
outdoor life, and made a brave fight, which we feel 
might have been successful if the grip had not come, 
to undo all that the climate had done. He was 
always very loyal and affectionate to Old Prince- 
ton." 

One of the teachers who fitted him for college 
wrote : " I could not wish my boys a better future 
nor with all the love of my heart picture a character 
which I would prefer my boys to resemble in their 
youth and early manhood than Henry Welles, as I 
knew him and as I remember him. Honor, ability, 
dignity and versatility combined are a strong heri- 
tage to the man who possesses them " 



JOSEPH MOSS WHITE 

" Much have I travelled in the realms of gold." 

White entered the class with the beginning of 
Sophomore year, and left it in April of Junior year. 
Little has been known by the class regarding his 

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AFTER TWENTY YEARS 

subsequent life, as he made no reports for the suc- 
cessive Records. 

Through the kindness of Wilder, '79, we have 
succeeded in obtaining an account of White's life 




from a Mr. Harvey Spencer, who was his friend and 
co-wanderer. When in this country, he lived in 
New York and Lenox, but it appears that the bulk 
of his time was spent in travel. Beginning with a 
brief first trip abroad in '82 with his mother, to 
England, France and Germany, he next, in '83, vis- 
ited Cuba, the West Indies and Panama; and cross- 
ing thence to England, undertook a long tour to 

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PERSONAL BIOGRAPHIES OF '81 

Ceylon, Australia and India. Returning to Europe, 
he later, in the fall of 1884, rented a country place 
in Hampshire, England, which he thereafter regard- 
ed as his home. In 1885, after a trip to Turkey 
and Greece, he bought a schooner-yacht, in which 
he became fond of making long cruises. 

The winter of '86 found White in Russia, and the 
following summer was spent on the yacht. After 
the autumn and Christmas in Hampshire, he went 
to Paris and Vienna for several months, returning to 
England for the Queen's first Jubilee, in June, '87. 
This summer was likewise passed on the yacht. 

In the fall, he rented a house in Paris for the 
winter. 

It was while here that White was taken seriously 
ill; and after an illness of some months, on March 
22, 1888, he died of pneumonia, in the thirtieth 
year of his age. 



A. PENNINGTON WHITEHEAD 

My life since leaving college has been uneventful. 
In the fall of 188 1 I entered the law office of Mar- 
tin & Smith, 50 Wall Street, New York, as a stu- 
dent, and after admission to the bar became a clerk 
in their employ, and so continued until the forma- 
tion of the partnership of Duer, Strong & White- 
head, composed of the surviving members of Martin 

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AFTER TWENTY YEARS 

& Smith and myself. Of this firm I am now a 
member, and our office is at the same address. 

I married Miss Agnes H. Strang, on May 21, 




1890, at the Church of the Transfiguration, in New 
York, and still remain in vinculis matrimonii. My 
married life has been such a happy one that I cannot 
say to my unmarried classmates that I would I were 
both almost and altogether such as they are, except 
these bonds. 

You ask if I have any children. Some achieve 
children, and some have children thrust upon them ; 
but I look forward to an old age unshadowed by 

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PERSONAL BIOGRAPHIES OF '81 

even a single olive branch, with a fortitude which 
those whose quiver is full can never appreciate. 

My residence was in Newark, N. J., until after 
my marriage, when, being brought to see the error 
of my way (commuting via P. R. R.), I moved to 
New York City, and have since lived there, my 
present address being 5 1 East Seventy-eighth Street. 

M.A. and LL.B. are the only degrees to which I 
am entitled. With these I am content ; for those 
whose degrees are numerous enough to make a great 
circle are not really to be envied. Although their 
merit may be indicated by so great a number, it can 
never be proved, as any attempt to that end results 
in an argumentum in circulo. 

In politics I am an Independent and Anti-Impe- 
rialist; and I am a member of the Presbyterian 
Church. The University Club, the Down Town 
Association, and the Richmond Hill Golf Club, 
all of New York City, fill my demand for club 
Hfe. From the use of the latter club, and its affili- 
ated clubs (drivers, mashies, etc.), has resulted the 
most important discovery made by me since leaving 
college, — that I can never hope to emerge from the 
duffer class. My classmates, i.e.^ those in that 
class, have my sympathy, and will, I trust, extend 
theirs to me. 

Leaving golf out of the question, I have no reason 
to be other than content with my lot. 

I hope to attend the Reunion, 
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ROBERT WILLIAMS 

" Young in years, but in sage councils old. 
Than whom a better senator ne'er held 
The helm of" — Trenton. 

My residence is No, 21 Church Street, Paterson, 
N. J.; my business address, First National Bank 
Building, Paterson, N. J. 

I am a lawyer. Immediately after leaving college 
I entered the law office of my father, the late Henry 
A. Williams, and also entered Columbia College Law 
School in New York, from which I was graduated 
in May, 1884, with degree of LL.B. I , was ad- 

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PERSONAL BIOGRAPHIES OF '81 

mitted as an attorney-at-law in June, 1884, and as 
a counsellor in June, 1887, and have been in active 
practice in Paterson ever since. 

I was married, April 23, 1891, to Alice Winslow 
Ingham, daughter of Major George T. Ingham, U. 
S. A., and a cousin of Will Ingham of our class, 
and have two children : Robert WiUiams, Jr., born 
January 27, 1892, and Henry A. WiUiams, born 
January 15, 1895. 

I was elected a member of the New Jersey Assem- 
bly in 1889 and 1890, and received the minority 
nomination for Speaker in the session of 189 1. I 
was elected a member of the New Jersey Senate in 
1894, and was President of the Senate in 1896, and 
again in 1897. My only military title was that of 
Captain, which I received as Judge Advocate in the 
National Guard of New Jersey. I was appointed 
a Special Master in Chancery in 1896, and am 
counsel and director in several large corporations. 
My only political position at present is that of 
member of the Executive Committee of the Repub- 
lican State Committee of New Jersey. 

I am a Republican and Presbyterian. 

I expect to attend the Class Reunion this June. 

Bob is in line with the procession as a golfer, and 
is a member of the North Jersey Country Club of 
Paterson. He speaks of besting Jack Fowler at the 
game, summer before last, at the Atlantic City Coun- 

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AFTER TWENTY YEARS 

try Club, and of being bested in turn by Bob Cress- 
well at the same place. The committee regards 
Williams with a peculiar and distinguished affec- 
tion, for his was the very first report to be received 
in reply to the circular, being sent literally by re- 
turn mail. Grier Monroe was a close second. 




DAVID WILLS, JR. 

** You may have known that I'm no wordy man ; 
Fine speeches are the instruments of knaves." 

An account of my life and fortunes since leaving 
college does not call for much space in the Class 

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PERSONAL BIOGRAPHIES OF '81 

Record. Brief answers to the questions will tell the 
story : 

I. Grace Church, Oswego, N, Y. 

1. Ministry. 

3. Married Eloise McNair Baker, October 6, 
1886, at Somerville, N. J. Children: David, born 
July 20, 1887 ; and Virginia McNair, born October 
14, 1889. 

4. Nothing noteworthy. 

5. Presbyterian ; Democrat, — Cleveland brand. 

6. Hope to attend Reunion. 



JAMES M. WILSON 

" Others apart sat on a hill retired. 
In thoughts more elevate, and reasoned high 
Of providence, foreknowledge, will and fate. 
Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute." 

My residence is 1530 Walnut Street, Boulder, 
Col. I assumed the pastorate of the First Presby- 
terian Church of this city in October, 1899. My 
marriage took place to Miss Minnie E. 'Douglass, 
of Topeka, Kan., October 20, 1886. We have had 
no children. 

During my pastorate in Omaha, I carried the 
chair of English Bible in the Presbyterian Theo- 
logical Seminary for three years, and since my loca- 
tion here I have given instruction in applied ethics 
in the University of Colorado. My political affilia- 

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AFTER TWENTY YEARS 

tions underwent a change about twelve years ago, 
since whxh time I have voted the Republican ticket. 




The long distance will prevent me from being 
present at the Class Reunion, but my interest ever 
deepens in the Class of '8i. 



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THE 
SESQUICENTENNIAL 



297 




THE SESQUICENTENNIAL. 

President Cleveland Reviewing the Torch-light Procession of Alumni and Students, 
October 21, 1896. 



'8 1 AT THE SESQUICENTENNIAL 

October, 1896 
By JOHN O. H. PITNEY 

Our class officers exercised excellent judgment 
in consolidating our Sesquidecennial with the Col- 
lege Sesquicentennial. The interest in our re- 
union was intensified ; and we may say, — modest- 
ly because truly, — we were a decided addition to 
the Sesqui. No class showed a finer class spirit nor 
a heartier Princeton enthusiasm ; and in the grand 
night pageant, none were more cordially welcomed 
and applauded than the " Old Continentals, yielding 
not." 

It is not intended to boast, but our classmates 
who were not present have a right to indulge a class 
pride in the knowledge that, in that grand celebra- 
tion, '81 played a conspicuous and worthy part. 

Our Committee of Arrangements (Munn, Hud- 
nut, Monroe and Scribner) had made every provi- 
sion for our comfort — had secured class headquarters, 
class dormitory and class restaurant. We were ex- 
pected on Wednesday, October 21st, and we began 
to arrive at noon, and were immediately lunched 

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AFTER TWENTY YEARS 

and wined bounteously. Then we attended a foot- 
ball game between Princeton and the University of 
Virginia, brilliantly played by such Princeton stars 
as Poe, Kelly, Church, (who afterward won fame 
before Santiago,) Cochran, and Hillebrand, who has 
since played on three champion foot-ball teams and 
three champion base-ball nines. It was a fine ex- 
hibition of Princeton skill, and warmed our enthu- 
siasm. 

As the torchlight procession was to start early, our 
dinner was served promptly at six o'clock, and was 
rather short and informal. We had donned Conti- 
nental uniforms of orange and black, and the boys 
were soon m the spirit of the occasion. If any 
flagged, he was promptly dosed with champagne ; 
a few of the empty medicine-bottles may be discov- 
ered in the photograph reproduced for this Record. 
Rose, the Princeton photographer, is guilty of this 
calcium flash-light. Some of the faces are hardly 
recognizable, and one or two scarcely got an eye- 
brow in focus. For identification, the names are 
given in the order in which they sit or stand. 
Those sitting, counting from the right, are A. H. 
Scribner, Hudnut, Powers Farr, Jr., (our class boy,) 
Titsworth, W. H. Roberts, van Dyke, Landon, 
Sinclair, Van Alen, and Wills ; those standing, 
counting also from the right, are W. A. Robinson, 
Farr, Whitehead, Townsend, Kimball, Pitney, 
Munn, Harlan, (disguised as George Washington,) 

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AFTER 1 W ENTY YEARS 

Duffield, Moore, Monroe, (peeping out from behind 
him,) Jagkson, (just in it and no more,) McMurdy, 
Porter and Dodd, neck and neck, Robbins, Brant, 
Brown, Coursen, Schmidt, Coyle, Cauldwell and 
Armstrong. No one was under the table. Behind 
Harlan and Duffield is the transparency we carried. 
The menu, with proper Latin and puns, was set 
forth as follows : 

P— ♦♦♦^^♦♦♦^^♦♦♦—^♦♦♦^—•HM*— ♦♦♦•—♦♦♦ ^^Mt—Ht-i^ 

I' ' Pat res ?iostri liigiiitate * 

Semper se gerebatii." \ 

I i 

I 1^46 — i8g6 I 

I CLASS DINNER OF 1881 | 

f RELISH I 

I Caviar on Toast (ed Redcoats) | 

S Oys-tories on Ice — Peace to their ashes % 

I sovr I 

X Green Turtle, Hessian Style S 

I FISH I 

I Bass Chops, Baron Steuben Sauce ■ 

I Potatoes Continental | 

f ROAST I 

I Filet of Beef Mushrooms, Vorktown Style | 

J Peace and Potatoes i 

I GA ME I 

* Eagle Squablets Salad, Mercer Style I 

I DESERT(ERS) I 

? Bisque Glace' a la Arnold ? 

1 "To be destroyed tooth and nail" With-er-spoon I 

2 Washington Cakes Bonbons J 
I Coffee I 

\ Ijth Anniverujr\ T50th Anniversars | 



THE SESgUICENTENNIAL 

At eight o'clock we formed for the torchlight pa- 
rade. Our place was in front of Clio Hall, with right 
resting on the little cannon. Landon (who always 
spoke of the occasion as the Squashennial) acted as 
Grand Marshal. Harlan, gorgeously arrayed and in 
powdered wig, and looking every inch his part, repre- 
sented George Washington. He was seated in an 
open barouche, drawn by four prancing white steeds, 
which were led by four darkies in livery walking at 
their heads, and encouraged by two other colored 
gents on the box, — altogether quite an imposing 
sight. The class carried orange-colored paper lan- 
terns, and formed four abreast in two divisions, — 
one in front of the carriage, in command of Munn, 
Assistant Marshal ; the other following, in command 
of Pitney, Assistant Marshal. Other classes were 
formed in a continuous line skirting the quadrangle. 
The whole campus was full of light and color and 
shouts and songs. There were lusty cheers for 
Washington and the class of '8i as the other classes 
passed to their positions in line. 

President and Mrs. Cleveland arrived while we 
were being formed, and were escorted by the City 
Troop of Philadelphia to the steps of Old Nassau, 
where a reviewing stand had been erected. The 
front of the old building was brilliantly illuminated. 
Every window was framed by a line of electric lights, 
and threads of orange lights marked the outlines of 
the building and the old clock-tower. Strings of 

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AFTER TWENTY YEARS 

cranage lanterns were festooned trom tree to tree, so 
that the whole front campus was a blaze of light and 
splendor. The entire route ot the procession was 
gayly decorated and illuminated. Two effective 
arches had been erected for the occasion : one, at 
the corner of Mercer and Stockton Streets, spoke 
the Town's greeting to the University; the other, 
erected bv the College, stood in tront ot the Dean's 
house. 

The procession started at halt-past eight, in com- 
mand of Grand Marshal William Libbey, '77, 
headed bv the Seventy-tirst Regiment Band of New 
York. Crowds of spectators lined the way, and the 
cheering was continuous. As we marched through 
the town and then counter-marched, class greeted 
class with the College cheer. First in the line of 
march were the Mercer Blues, a picked company 
of undergraduates, caretully drilled, and uniformed 
in regimentals ot blue and buff; then came a dele- 
gation of about twenty-five Yale students ; then the 
Princeton undergraduate division, and then the Old 
Guard Division, made up ot alumni of the classes 
graduated prior to i860. The oldest representa- 
tives were two '39 men, and with one or two excep- 
tions everv later class was represented ; and a won- 
derful sight they presented as they passed us, — old 
bearded men carrying torches, grave clergymen, 
swinging lanterns enthusiastically, dignified business 
men carrying banners, and here and there a judge 

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HT PROCESSION AT THE SESQUICENTENNIAL. 



THE SESQUICENTENNIAL 

or chancellor with a transparency over his shoulder, 
all cheering and singing. Graduates had come from 
the far West, from England, from France, from 
China, and from India, to take part in the celebra- 
tion. Some of the class delegations exceeded one 
hundred and fifty in number, and altogether over 
three thousand people were in line. '79 made a 
fine turnout. They had their own brass band, and 
carried several elaborate transparencies, one of them 
representing the bas-relief statue of President 
McCosh which their class had set in the chapel ; 
another, the Battle of Princeton ; and another, the 
demolition of old East College, bluntly characterized 
as the Crime of '96. '78 dragged along a wooden 
cannon, from which a continuous stream of red fire 
poured. '77 escorted an enormous stuffed tiger 
mounted on a cart. '88, known as the "Horse 
Class," on account of the horse-play they so fre- 
quently indulged in in college, had a large delega- 
tion, the men in the front ranks with dummy horse- 
bodies suspended from their waists, making a toy 
cavalry effect. 

After following the line of march through the 
town, the procession returned to the campus, and, 
fihng alofig in front of Old North, was reviewed 
by President and Mrs. Cleveland, with whom on 
the reviewing stand were President Patton, Gov- 
ernor Griggs of New Jersey, Senator Gray of Dela- 
ware, and other distinguished guests. As the pro- 

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AFTER TWENTY YEARS 

cession passed the reviewing stand, the classes 
formed, Hne behind Hne, in the front campus, and 
all joined in singing " Old Nassau." Then followed 
a brilliant display of fireworks, with an illumination 
of the whole front campus ; there were handsome 
and stately set pieces ; there were bombs and Roman 
candles, and the air was full of rockets, both pyro- 
technic and vocal. 

It was a thrilling and impressive sight, — one never 
to be forgotten by those who saw it, but hard to 
picture to those who missed it. 

We left the scene with reluctance, and strolled 
back to our place of reunion, where a hot supper 
was served. Then in the small hours we marched 
around the triangle for "Auld Lang Syne," gave a 
parting cheer at the cannon, and adjourned to meet 
in the same dear old place in June, 1901. 



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THE CLASS MEETING IN 1896 

At the Class meeting, held at the time of the 
Sesqui Dinner, the following business was transacted, 
as shown by the minutes of the Class Secretary, Dr. 
Arthur L. Kimball : 

The President, Mr. Munn, who is also Chairman 
of the Committee on the '81 Memorial Collection 
of Casts, presented a report on behalf of that com- 
mittee. (See p. 308.) 

The President and Secretary were re-elected ; 
Mr. Moore, on motion, being chosen to cast the 
ballot for the class. Mr. Hudnut was elected 
Treasurer of the class. 

It was voted to hold a reunion in 1901, on the 
twentieth anniversary of the graduation of the class. 

On motion of Mr. Landon, the sons of members 
of the class were invited to be present at the reunion 
in 1901. 

The committee who had acted in making prepara- 
tions for the fifteenth-year reunion were appointed, 
together with Mr. Duffield, as committee in charge 
of the preparations for the twentieth-year reunion. 

It was voted that the decision as to what should 
be done about the Class Fountain be referred to the 
above class committee. 

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AFTER TWENTY YEARS 

A committee on the Class Record for 1901 was 
appointed ; also a committee to draft resolutions on 
the deaths of Bedell and Danforth. Those relating 
to Bedell were entrusted to Mr. Coyle to deliver. 
Those relating to Danforth were sent to Mr. Will- 
iam Ryle, 54 Howard Street, New York City, to 
be forwarded to Mrs. Charles Danforth. 



REPORT OF MEMORIAL COMMITTEE 

(Referred to in the Foregoing Minutes.) 

Total Receipts from Subscription to January 

I, 1896 $4,745.00 

Interest 1 29. 1 5 

Making a total of $4,874.15 

Disbursements to January i, 1896 3,891.94 

Disbursements for additions to the collection dur- 
ing 1896 613.62 

Total Disbursements 4, 505. 56 

Balance in the treasury 368. 59 

[Here follows a list of additions to the cast collections which had 
been made during the year. These are now included in the complete list 
of casts on pages 315 to 321. 



308 



FINAL REPORT OF MEMORIAL 
COMMITTEE, 

June, 1901 

At the last meeting of the class held in Princeton 
during the Sesquicentennial Celebration of 1896, 
only an informal report was made concerning the 
additions which had been made to the 1881 Collec- 
tion of Casts. Your committee considered that 
material additions should be made to the collection 
before the time of the last reunion, and through the 
kind assistance and co-operation of Professor Allan 
Marquand, a number of important casts were im- 
ported from Germany and Italy during the spring 
of 1896. In all, over $600 was expended in mak- 
ing these purchases, and in repairing, mounting and 
placing them in the Museum. 

In the autumn of 1897 your President received a 
visit from Professor Frothingham, who informed him 
that some important reproductions of the beautiful 
but little known Memorial Arch of Trajan at Bene- 
ventum were lying in the custom-house awaiting 
payment of freight charges and storage. He asked 
whether your committee would like to procure these 
casts with the view of adding them to the 1881 col- 

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AFTER TWENTY YEARS 

lection. It appears that until the previous year, no 
moulds of the decorations and sculptures of the arch 
had ever been made ; but under the auspices of the 
American School of Classical Studies at Rome, and 
under the personal supervision of Professor Froth- 
ingham, all the important parts of this historic work 
had been reproduced. They are regarded as the 
finest group of Roman relief sculptures now extant, 
and as the most important record of the reign of 
Trajan ; while as a whole the arch surpasses in beauty 
the better known ones of Titus, Septimius Severus, 
and Constantine, in Rome. 

The opportunity of procuring these fine works 
of art for the 1881 Collection was considered by 
your committee to be one which should not be lost, 
especially in view of the very favorable conditions 
under which it was possible to procure them. 
Through the munificence of Mrs. Harrison Garrett, 
of Baltimore, $1,000 had been subscribed, partly as 
a help in the very expensive task of making the 
moulds, and partly with the object of providing 
Princeton with some of the casts of the arch. The 
expense of making and packing the casts was so 
great, however, that sufficient funds did not remain 
to pay the expenses of transportation and of mount- 
ing the casts in Princeton. It was at this juncture 
that Professor Frothingham called, and made the 
proposition that, in case all bills were paid by your 
committee, with the approval and consent of Mrs. 

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THE ARCH OF TRAJAN, BENEVENTUM, ITALY. 
Showing the Taking of Casts now in the '8i Collection in the Art Museum at Princeton. 



THE SESOUICENTENNIAL 

Garrett, the casts would be added to the 1881 Col- 
lection. As a considerable sum remained in the 
treasury, the proposition was, after much consulta- 
tion and correspondence, accepted, and the members 
of the class may judge for themselves whether they 
do not consider that the reliefs from the Arch of 
Beneventum add greatly to the interest and value 
of the '81 Collection. 

In the report of the Treasurer published in the 
Class Record of 1891, the total amount of subscrip- 
tions to the Memorial Fund amounted to ^4,700.00. 
The total expenditures at that time amounted to 
|3_,844.94, leaving a balance in the Treasury of 
I855.06. 

The expenses of purchasing, transporting, re- 
pairing, mounting, etc., the casts purchased by 
Professor Marquand in 1896, amounted to I613.62. 
The expenses of procuring, repairing and mount- 
ing the casts from the Arch of Trajan amounted to 
$458.04. The total expenditures, including several 
small bills contracted in 1891, amounted to 14,963.- 
60. The total receipts to June 13, 1892, amounted 
to $4,745.00. The interest on the unexpended bal- 
ance from January i, 1892, to January, 1896, 
amounted to $129.15. The small deficit of $89.45 
remaining was made up by voluntary contributions. 
The account is now closed, but I am requested by 
Professor Marquand to remind the members of the 
class that the collection is not yet complete and that 

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AFTER TWENTY YEARS 

further additions to the collection will be more than 
welcome ; and that when the Art School is still fur- 
ther enlarged, another opportunity will be offered 
the class to extend the work which has been so suc- 
cessfully inaugurated. Professor Marquand has 
furnished a complete list of the 1881 Collection, 
which is published herewith. 

RECAPITULATION OF ACCOUNT 

-Rt'ceipis. 

Total subscriptions $4, 700. 00 

Rebate on bills paid 45.00 

Interest on deposits 1 29. 1 5 

Additional subscriptions to balance <^9-45 

$4,963.60 
Expenses. 
Total expenses : purchase of casts, repairs, carpen- 
ter work, printing, transportation, mounting 
casts, etc $4,963. 60 

Chas. Allen Munn, 

Chairman Memorial Committee. 



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THE '8 1 COLLECTION 
OF CASTS 



313 



THE '8 1 COLLECTION OF CASTS 

THE CLASS'S MEMORIAL GIFT 

NOW IN THE ART MUSEUM AT PRINCETON 

I. Egyptian Sculpture. 

I-I2. Twelve Reliefs from the Tomb of Ti, at Sakkara. 

13. Relief from Tomb of Ptah-Hotep, at Sakkara. 

14. Bust of Amenophis III. 

15. " " Thothmes III. 

16. " " Rameses II. 

17. Head of Ethiopian King Taharqa. 

18. Unfinished Sculptor's Model. 
19-21. Three Male Heads. 

22. Seated Statue of Isis. 

23. " " " Osiris. 

24. Head of a Sphynx. 

II. Chaldean and Assyrian Sculpture, 

25. Head with a Turban, from Tello. 

26. Male Head from Tello. 

27. Relief of an Assyrian Lion- Hunt. 

28. " " Prisoners brought before Assurnazirpal. 

29. " "an Official under Assurnazirpal. 

30. " " Eagle-Headed Divinity. 

31. Bronze Lion. 

32. Sculptured Threshold. 

^;^. Relief of Assurbanipal hunting. 

III. Persian Sculpture. 

34-37. Four Reliefs of a Charioteer, from Persepolis. 
38. Warriors and Overseers, from Persepolis. 



39 
40 

41 

42 

4^ 
44 
45 
46 

47 
48 

49 
50 
51 

52. 
53 
54 
55 
5^ 
57 
58 
59 



AFTER TWENTY YEARS 



IV. Mycen.ean and Archaic Grekk Sculpture. 
Ceiling Decoration from " Bee-IIive" Tomb at Orchomenos. 
Gable Sculptures from the Treasury of the Megarians at Glympia. 
Bronze Relief from Olympia. 

Ciritifin-riead from Olympia. 
Head of Zeus from Olympia. 
" " " Aphrodite (?) from Kythera. 

Statuette of Apollo, from Naxos. 

" " " Hermes Kriophoros. 

" " " Herakles. 

" " " Winged Nike. 

" " " Etruscan Aphrodite. 



" " " " Warrior. 

" " " " " from Dodona. 

The Strangford Apollo. 
Metope from Selinous. 
Attic Stele of Aristion, by Aristokles. 
Spartan Grave Relief. 
Relief from Samotlirake. 
Statuette of Demeter. 
60-62. Three Terra-cotta Reliefs from Melos. 

63. Anthemion. 

V. Devkloped Greek Sculpture. 

64. Model of Eastern Pediment of Zeus Temple, Olympia. 

65. " " Western " " " " " 
6b. Head of Oinomaos, from ()l)nipia. 

67. " " Pelops, " 

6S. " " Sterope, " " 

69. " " Aged Seer, " " 

70. " " Kladeos, " " 

71. Metope from Zeus Temple, Olympia. 

72. Reduction of Nike of Paionios. 

73- " " the Diskobolos of Myron. 

74. Head of the Diskobolos of Naukydes. 

75. Statuette of Athena Parthenos. 

76. " " " Promachos. 

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WATER-GODDESS. 

DETAILS FROM THE ARCH OF TRAJAN. 

The Casts of these are now in the '8i Collection. 



THE '81 COLLECTION OF CASTS 

77. Horses' Heads from Eastern Pediment of the Parthenon. 

78. Demeter and Persephone, from the Eastern Pediment of the 

Parthenon. 

79. Head of Nike, from Western Pediment of the Parthenon. 
80-81. Two Metopes from the Parthenon. 

82. Puteal from Madrid. 

83. Head of Perikles. 

84. Doric Capital from the Parthenon. 

85. Ionic " " " Erechtheion. 

86. Ante- " " " 

87. Console from the Erechtheion. 

88. Capital from the Choragic Monument of Lysikrates. 

89. Anthemion. 

90. Doryphoros of Polykleitos. 

91. Head of Farnese Hera. 

92. Grave Relief of Thraseas and Euandria. 

93. " " " Mynno. 

94. " " "a Man from Karystos. 

95. Balustrade from Temple of Nike Apteros, Athens. 

96. Hermes of Praxiteles. 

97. Apollo Sauroktonos, after Praxiteles. 

98. Bust of Artemis of Gabii. 

99. Demeter of Knidos. 
100. Bust of Niobe. 

loi. Sculptured Drum of a Column from the Temple of Artemis at 
Ephesos. 

102. Head of Mausolos, from Halikarnassos. 

103. Aphrodite of Melos. 

104. Apollo of the Belvidere. 

105. Bust of Artemis of Versailles. 

106. Sophokles. 

107. Bronze Statue of the Praying Boy. 

108. " Head of Hypnos. 

109. Marble Statuette of Persephone. 
110-112. Three Bronze Statuettes of Apollo. 
113-116. Four " " " Herakles. 

1 1 7. Bronze Statuette of Aphrodite. 

118. " " "an Athlete. 

119. " " " a Winged Woman, 
120-122. Three Terra-cotta Figurines from Tanagra. 



AFTER TWENTY YEARS 



VI. Late Greek Sculpture. 



123. 


Athena Group, from the Great Altar at Pergamon. 


124. 


Zeus " " " " .' •> i. 


125. 


Apollo " " " " " " " 


126. 


Giant " " " " <> " <> 


127- 


128. Two Heads of Giants, from the Great Altar at Pergamon. 


129. 


Relief from Small Frieze of Altar at Pergamon. 


130. 


Female Head from Pergamon. 


131- 


Torso of the Belvidere. 


132- 


Psyche of Capua. 


133- 


Head of a Barbarian. 


134- 


" " Zeus, from Otricoli. 


135- 


" " Farnese Herakles. 


136. 


Relief of Apotheosis of Homer. 


137- 


Reduction of Nike of Samothrake. 


138. 


" " The Wrestlers. 


139- 


Head of Dying Alexander. 


140. 


" " Homer. 


141. 


Statuette of Apollo. 


142. 


" " Herakles. 


143- 


" " Indian Bacchus. 


144. 


Bronze Statuette of Jupiter Serapis. 


145- 


" 


" Herakles. 


146. 


" 


" Aphrodite. 


147- 


" 


" Hephaistos. 


148. 


" 


" Atys. 


149. 


" 


" Artemis of Ephesos. 


150- 


" 


" Nike. 


151- 


" 


" Bacchus. 


152. 


" 


" a Faun. 


153- 


" 


" Seilenos. 


154- 


" 


" a " Manes " for the Game called Kottabos 


155- 


(1 < 


' "a Boy on a Goat. 



VII. Roman Sculpture. 



156. Head of Julius Caesar. 

157. " " Young Augustus. 

158. " " Antinous. 

159. Relief of 



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THE '81 COLLECTION OF CASTS 

1 60. Relief of Trajan Receiving Deputies. 

161-162. Two Reliefs of Gods Welcoming Trajan to Rome after his 

Dacian Triumph. 
163-164. Two Reliefs of a River-God and a Water-Goddess. 

(Nos. 160-164 are from the Arch of Trajan at Beneventum.) 

165. Tragic Mask. 

166. Comic Mask. 

167. Bronze Statuette of Minerva. 
" Proserpine. 
" Dione (?) 
" Venus. 
" Salus. 
" Man Clad in a Toga. 



169. " 

170. " 
171. 
172. " 

173- 

174. Marble 



Cybele. 



VIII. Early Christian and Medieval Sculpture. 
Italy. 

175. Ivory Pyxis in Berlin Museum. 

176. " <<<<<< i' 

177. Statuette of St. Peter. 

178. Relief of Last Judgment, from Pulpit at Siena, by Niccolo Pisano. 

179. Two Figures from Pulpit at Pisa, by Niccolo Pisano. 

180. Madonna and Child, Arena Chapel, Padua, by Giovanni Pisano. 

181. Tomb of Enrico Scrovegno, by Giovanni Pisano. 

182. Bust of a Neapolitan Princess. 

France. 

183. Twin Capitals from Cloister of St. Trophime, Aries. 

184. Rosette from Bell-Tower of La Charite. 

185. Capital from Triforium of Laon Cathedral. 
186-187. Two Heads from Portal of Abbey at Moissac. 

188. Relief of St. Peter, from Abbey at Moissac. 

189. " " St. Paul, 

190. Abacus of Twin Capitals, from Abbey at Moissac. 

191. Madonna and Child, from Notre Dame, Paris. 

192. Base for Statue, Senlis Cathedral. 

193. Capital of Engaged Column, Saint Sernin, Toulouse. 

194. Head of Christ, from Amiens Cathedral. 

195. Tomb of Bishop Evrard de Fouilloy, Amiens Cathedral. 



AFTER TWENTY YEARS 

196. Knocker from South l^ortal of Bayonne Cathedral. 

197. Head of a Bishop, Bordeaux Cathedral. 

198. Pinnacle, Chartres Cathedral. 

199-200. Two Reliefs of Kings, Chartres Cathedral. 
201-202. Two Sculptured Corbels, Notre Dame, Corbeil. 

203. Relief from Western Fa9ade, Notre Dame, Paris. 

204. Head of a Deacon, from South Portal, Notre Dame, Paris. 

205. Part of Ironwork, " " " " 

206. Fragment of Archivolt, from South Portal, Notre Dame, Paris. 

207. Relief from South Portal, Notre Dame, Paris. 

208. Madonna from North Portal, Notre Dame, Paris. 

209-214. Six Allegorical Sculptures from Choir, Notre Dame, Paris. 

215. Statuette of Madonna and Child, Louvre, Paris. 

216. Relief from Western Fa9ade of Reims Cathedral. 

217. Architectural Fragment, " " 

218. Tomb of a Prince of House of Artois, Saint Denis. 

219. Statuette of Madonna and Child, " " 

220. Altar Front, from Saint Germer. 

Germauy. 

221. Empress Kunigunde, Bamberg Cathedral. 

222. Apostle and Prophet, " " 

IX. Renaissance Sculpture. 

223. Tomb of Ilaria del Caretto, by Jacopo della Querela. 

224. Relief of Sacrifice of Isaac, by Brunelleschi. 

225. " " " " " " Ghiberti. 

226-249. Twenty-four Reliefs from Gates of Paradise, by Ghiberti. 
250-273. " " Heads from Bronze Sacristy Doors, by Luca della 

Robbia. 

274. Relief for Choir-Gallery, by Luca della Robbia. 

275. " " " " " Donatello. 

276. Statue of David, by Donatello. 

277. Angel bearing Coat-of-Arms, by Desiderio da Settignano. 

278. Relief of Madonna Adoring Child, by Andrea della Robbia, 

279. Infant from Innocenti Hospital, " " " " 

280. Relief of Faith, by Matteo Civitale. 

281. Statue of David, by Verocchio. 

282. Tabernacle in Santa Croce, Florence, by Mino da Fiesole. 

283. Bust of Bishop Salutati, Fiesole, " " " " 

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THE '81 COLLECTION OF CASTS 

284. Madonna and Child, by Antonio Rossellino. 

285. Relief from Pulpit at Santa Croce, Florence, by Benedetto da 

Majano. 

286. Bust of Neapolitan Princess, by Francesco da Laurana, 

287. Relief of Battle of the Centaurs, by Michelangelo. 

288. Mask of a Faun, by Michelangelo. 

289. Head of Statue of David, by Michelangelo. 

290. Relief of Perseus freeing Andromeda, by Benvenuto Cellini. 



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PRINCETON'S GROWTH 

By PAUL VAN DYKE 

The development indicated by the change of 
name from the College of New Jersey to Princeton 
University, which was made at the sesquicentennial 
celebration, appears also in the material increase of 
students and resources which has taken place since 
our graduation. 

In 1 88 1 there were 491 names in the college 
catalogue, of whom 389 were academic students, ^6 
scientific students, and 46 alleged post-graduates ; 
mostly seminary students attending scattered courses 
of lectures in the college. Five years later, in 1886, 
the total number of students in college was 500, 
that year marking the trough of a wave-motion on 
the line of numbers, whose crest was marked by 
^66. Five years later, in 1891, the total number 
of students was 850; the largest proportionate in- 
crease being in the scientific department. In 1896 
the total number of students was 1,088, of whom 
about one-third were scientific students. In 1901 
we have a total of 1,277 students, of whom 109 are 
graduate, 749 academic, and 419 scientific students. 

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AFTER TWENTY YEARS 

Of our present graduate students, many are resid- 
ing in Princeton only for the sake of the univer- 
sity courses. Many are students for the degree of 
M.A., and all are required to pass examinations in 
their courses. 

The increase of students, therefore, in the last 
fifteen years is over one hundred and fifty per cent. 

In 1 88 1 there were on the list of the Faculty 
thirty-five names. Of these names nineteen repre- 
sented full professorships. In 1901 there are forty- 
two full professors, and forty-nine assistant profes- 
sors, instructors and other officers. 

In 1 88 1 the total endowment of Princeton was 
about $1,000,000, with an income of $60,000. In 
1899 it was about $2,300,000, yielding an income 
of $114,000. The income from other sources, 
room-rents, tuition and entrance-fees, was in 1881 
$52,000; in 1899 it was $158,000. The total in- 
come has therefore increased from $108,000 to 
$271,000 in 1899. This income does not, how- 
ever, represent any larger proportionate relation to 
our opportunities, increased work, multiplication of 
courses, and the standards of instruction among 
institutions with which we are ranked, than it did 
in 1 88 1. I am inclined to believe that so far as 
concerns the relation of our fixed income to our 
necessary expenses, we are probably poorer than we 
were in 1881. And it is safe to say that there is no 
college or university on the list in which we are 

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ranked in popular estimation, which does so large a 
business on so small a capital. This has been possi- 
ble only because the rate of wages for all branches 
of service in the university is lower than that of any 
other institution of equal standing. 

There has been a very large increase in the num- 
ber of our buildings in the last twenty years (eigh- 
teen to thirty-five). And those recently erected 
have been costly, {e.g., Alexander Hall, $250,000; 
University Library, $600,000 ;) so that the value 
represented by our campus now is very much 
greater than in 188 1. In addition, from $50,000 
to 1 1 00,000 have been expended on our athletic 
plant, and about $150,000 spent by graduates and 
undergraduates in the equipment of the eight social 
clubs. 

The most remarkable of the many new build- 
ings are the Library, Alexander Hall, and the group 
of dormitories soon to be completed on the rail- 
road side of the campus. The most costly is 
the Library, — a stately quadrangle, suggested in 
its style by Magdalen College at Oxford. It is 
connected with the old Library, which is used as 
a reading-room, on whose shelves are kept the 
books most often referred to by readers. The new 
building contains two large stack-rooms for books, 
only one of which is yet fitted with shelves ; and it 
is capable of holding more than a million volumes. 
It also contains about twenty seminar rooms, for 

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AFTER TWENTY YEARS 

small classes of advanced or graduate students for 
the kind of work which cannot be done in large 
classes. Many of these rooms have been furnished 
by private subscription. The effect upon the life of 
the University of the maturer work which is done 
in these rooms is very marked. The only drawback 
to the library now is the comparative lack of books. 
We have a library building and fixtures worth some 
^800,000, and a library worth some |20o,ooo. 

Alexander Hall, used for Commencement and 
other public exercises, is an exceedingly handsome 
building, whose exterior combines solidity of ap- 
pearance and a beautiful scheme of color decoration 
in marble and mosaic and stained glass in the apse, 
which is in full view of everyone in the audience. 
The cheering of the undergraduates who often fill 
the large gallery on public occasions has a peculiarly 
resonant effect as it is echoed by the solid arch of 
the roof. 

The new dormitory group consists of Blair Hall, 
under whose tower one enters the campus from 
the railroad ; Little Hall, recently finished ; and 
a third building, not yet built but shortly to be 
erected by Mr. Stafford Little, who also gave us 
Little Hall. They will form an irregular and most 
picturesque line along the western side of the 
campus, in the style of the buildings at Oxford. 
When completed, this group of buildings will be 
one of the finest and most consistent bits of archi- 

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lecture in America. The buildings will not be en- 
tirely joined, except by walls with gateways between, 
but will be treated as if they were one composition ; 
and indeed they are all the work of one architect. 

This form of dormitory, two stories high and 
divided by short entries piercing the building from 
front to back, has many advantages. It diminishes 
the dangers of fire and the contagion of noise, be- 
cause there are fewer rooms opening off an entry. 
It is more beautiful than the old high square style. 
And it is found that when you consider the aver- 
age cost per room, it is very little if any more ex- 
pensive. 

As far as the work of the student body goes, I 
am inclined to beheve that the industrious students 
do very much better work than they used to in our 
day, — I mean work of a higher and more mature 
character. On the other hand, I fancy the average 
student thinks it necessary to do less work than he 
did in our day. This is the result of a variety of 
causes. I may mention two, — the growing habit of 
sending sons to college largely for social reasons, 
and a consequent failure on the part of parents to 
insist that their sons must do their work at Prince- 
ton or go to work somewhere else. I may also 
mention the fact that we are in a transition stage. 
The expansion and improvement of our curriculum, 
the elective system, and the size of our classes, for- 
tunately compel us to treat our students more and 

329 



AFTER TWENTY YEARS 

more like men and less and less like boys. The 
best students are responding finely to these new op- 
portunities. I believe that the last half of the class 
will ultimately do so. There are many signs, nota- 
bly in the last year, of intellectual revival among 
the undergraduates, and there is reasonable ground 
to hope that within a few years the average A.B. 
degree of Princeton University will represent a 
standard of attainment raised to meet the larger op- 
portunities given by our enlarged and strengthened 
curriculum. 

No account of Princeton's progress would be 
complete without an allusion to the finest of all her 
achievements, the introduction of the honor sys- 
tem in examinations. I believe that this happy 
change lies at the root of the great amelioration 
of the relations between professors and students. 
During my three years' service, I have seen noth- 
ing remotely resembling intentional disorder in the 
class-room. And judging from my own experience, 
I do not see how it would be possible to improve 
the general courtesy, frankness and kindness of the 
attitude of the students, so far as I have come in 
contact with them. There is no single feature of 
the progress of Princeton during the last twenty 
years which seems to me more significant or more 
hopeful than this. 



330 




UNIVERSITY CAMPUS 



CLASS MlSCLLLANlLiS 



.i>, > 



ORGANIZATION 

*• However, as is usual in our city. 

They had a sort of managing Committee, 

A board of grave, responsible Directors ; 
A Secretary, good at pen and ink, 
A Treasurer, of course, to keep the chink. 
And quite an army of Collectors !" 

— Tom Hood. 

Class President : 
Charles Allen Munn, 
361 Broadway, New York. 

Secretary : 

Arthur L. Kimball, 

Amherst, Mass. 

Treasurer : 
Alexander M. Hudnut, 

1 1 Wall Street, New York. 

Committee on Twentieth-Year Reunion : 

Charles Allen Munn, 

Henry G. Duffield, 

Alex. M. Hudnut, 

Arthur L. Kimball, 

Robert Grier Monroe, 

Arthur H. Scribner. 

Committee on Class Record: 

Edwin A. Dix, 

Alex. M. Hudnut, 

J. Leverett Moore, 

Thomas D. Warren. 

333 



MARRIAGES AND CHILDREN 

ARRANGED CHRONOLOGIC ALLT 



Robert C'reighton Bradish 

TO 

Mary K. Donovan 

c 
Joseph S. E. Bradish, 



September, 1879, 

AT 

Carlisle, Pa. 

born June 25, 1880 



Edward Randall Knowles 

TO 

Jennie Earl 



December 16, 1879, 



CHILDREN : 
Edward W. R. Knowles,* 

Albert Knowles 

Alice Randall Knowles. 
Katharine Elton Earl Knowles. 
George Francis Knowles, . 

* Died November 15, i£ 



Boston, Mass. 

born Jan. 10, 1882 

" July 4, 1883 

" Sept. 7, 1888 

' Oct. 7, 1892 

" April 10, 1900 



Lewis H. Stanton 

TO 

Adele Cephise Townsend 

CHILDREN : 
Edwin M. Stanton, 
Cora Van Voorhis Stanton, 
Gideon Townsend Stanton, 
Mary A. T. Stanton, . 



April 19, 1881, 

AT 

New Orleans, La. 

born Jan. 27, 1882 

" July 2, 1883 

" July 14, 1885 

" June 25, 1889 



William A. Dougall 

TO 

Emma Jane Dean 

CHILDREN 

Elizabeth Jean Dougall, 
William D. M. Dougall, 
Andrew Kenneth Dougall, . 



August 20, 1 88 1, 

AT 

Newark, N. J. 

born April 12, 1882 

" Feb. 14, 1889 

Nov, 25, 1896 



334 



MARRIAGES AND CHILDREN 



September 8, 1881, 

AT 

Philadelphia, Pa. 



J. S. Brandt 

TO 

Carrie C. Porter 

CHILDREN : 

May Brandt, born Aug. 5, li 

Josie Brandt, " May 5, iJ 

Florence Brandt, " June 12, iJ 

Henry Brandt, " Aug. 22, i5 

Walter Brandt, " Aug. 30, 1^ 



E. Dunbar Price* 


1881, 


TO 

Sarah C. Burton 


AT 

Philadelphia, Pa. 


* Died December 4, 1890. 


Horace McDermont* 


March 21, 1882, 


TO 

Rosalie B. Thruston 


AT 

Cumberland, Md. 


* Died July 12, 1897. 


CHILDREN : 


Rosalie Thruston McDermont, . born June 2, 1883 


Clarke McDermont* .... 


Katherine Winters McDermont, . " March 22, 1886 


Thruston McDermont, ..." March 14, 1888 


Eliza McDermont, . . . . " March 14, 1888 


Chapman McDermont, . . . " April 24, 1890 
Horace Graham McDermont, . . " Aug. 21, 1894 


* Died aged ten months. 


Pliny Fisk 


October 4, 1882, 


TO 

Mary L. Chapman 


AT 

Woodstock, Vt. 


CHILDREN : 

Edith C. Fisk, born April 30, 1884 

Dorothy Fisk, ....,." Aug. 8, 1888 



Lewis L. Cory 

TO 

Carrie A. Martin 



Edith M. Cory, 
Kathrine Cory, 
Margaret Cory, 
Martin L. Cory, 
Benjamin Cory, 



October 17, 1882, 

AT 

Rahway, N. J. 

born March 10, 1884 
" Aug. 17, 1887 
" March 29, 1891 
" June 4, 1894 
" Oct. 25, 1896 



335 



AFTER TWENTY YEARS 



Eliston Rush Bateman* 



November i, 1882, 

AT 

Ceclarville, N. J. 



Mary Laurence 

* Died April 30, 1S87. 

CHILDREN : 

Elsie Laurence Bateman,* . . . born Aug. 26, 1883 

Arthur Norton Bat eman.f . . . " April 9, 1885 

* Died July 28, 1884. + Died August 12, 1885. 



Charles Henry Butler 

TO 

Marcia Flagg 

CH 
Ethan Flagg Butler, 

Marcia Flagg Butler, 

Charles Marshall Butler, 

Henry Franklin Butler, 



November 21, 1882, 

AT 

Yonkers, N. Y. 

. born Jan. 4, 1884 
" July 4, 1886 
" Dec. 29, 1887 
" Nov. 13, 1896 



T. H. Powers Farr 


April 14, 1883, 


TO 


AT 


Maria W. Harding 


Philadelphia, Pa. 


CHILDREN : 


T. H. Bowers Farr, Jr., . . . born Feb. 21, 1884 


Georgiana Harding Farr, . . . " May 30, 1886 


Barclay Harding Farr, . . . . " Sept. 6, 1890 


William Rush Farr, . . " April 6, 1899 


William T. Vlymen | July 7, 1883, 


TO 


AT 


Felicita Richmond 


Newark, N. J. 


CHILDREN : 


Josephine Vlymen born April 14, 1884 


Henry Thorn Vlymen, . 






" Sept. I, 1885 


William Vlymen, . 






" Jan. 3, 1887 


Helen Vlymen, 






" June 19, 1888 


Mary Vlymen, 






" Jan. 20, 1890 


John Vlymen, .... 






" Aug. 19, 1891 


Lawrence Vlymen, 






" Dec. 26, 1892 


Arthur Vlymen, 






" May 6, 1894 


Felicita Vlymen, . 






" Jan. 22, 1896 


Frederick Vlymen,* 






" July 9. 1897 


Harriet Vlymen, 






" July 29, 1898 


Edward Vlymen, . 




" Feb. 16, 1900 


* Died July 21, 1898. 



33^ 



MARRIAGES AND CHILDREN 



John F. Cowan 

TO 

Stella Goslin 

Mary Estelle Cowan, 
John Asher Cowan, 
Frances M. Cowan, 
Aseneth Cowan, 



CHILDREN : 



July lo, 1883, 

AT 

Oregon, Mo. 

born June 3, 1884 
" Oct. 29, 1886 
" Oct. 25, 1890 
" April 5, 1894 



Edwin M. Ellis 

TO 

Lilla M. Prince 

Wilder Prince Ellis, 
Nina Pauline Ellis, 



July 28, 1883, 

AT 

Amherst, Mass. 

born Dec. 24, 188 
" May 25, 188 



R. H. Hutchins 

TO 

Helen M. Atherton 



September 26, 18^ 

AT 

Wyoming, Pa. 



Louis J. Lang 

TO 

Clara Osborne Terhune 

CHILDREN : 
Frederick Lyford Lang, . 
Katharine Cushing Lang, . 



December 25, 1883 

AT 

Brooklyn, N. Y. 

born May 14, 1885 
" March 13, 1891 



George L. McNutt 

TO 

Miss Lulie Slavens 

CHILDREN : 
William Slavens McNutt, . 
Patterson McNutt, 



January 3, 1884, 

AT 

Kansas City, Mo. 

born Sept. 13, 1885 
" Sept. 30, 1896 



Frederick Moreau Davis 

TO 

Augusta M. Stalker 



CHILDREN : 



Raymond Foster Davis, 
Charles Moreau Davis, . 
Warren Stalker Davis, 



February 7, 1884, 

AT 

Bloomfield, N. J. 

born April 25, 1885 
" April 7, 1888 
" Oct. II, 1894 



337 



AFTER TWENTY YEARS 



William H. Darden 

TO 

Fanny D. Barlow 



April 1 6, 1884, 

AT 

Petaluma, Cal. 



CHILDREN : 
Rena Elizabeth Darden, . . . born Jan. 7, 1888 

William Earl Darden, . . . " March 14, 1890 



Charles E. Dunn 

TO 

Emma M. Demarest 

CHII 
William Parmley Dunn, . 

Allen Shoudy Dunn, . 
Elizabeth Dunn,* 
Emeline Dunn,t . 
Charles Eugene Dunn, Jr., 
Robert Hayes Dunn, . 

* Died April 3, 1892. 



August 14, 1884, 

AT 

Plainfield, N. J. 

born Aug. 14, 1885 

" May 8, 1887 

" Dec. 28, 1888 

" March 18, 1891 

" Feb. 14, 1893 

" Nov. 21, 1896 
t Died April 4, 1892. 



Arthur L. Kimball 

TO 

Lucilla P. Scribner 

CHILDREN : 
Arthur Livingstone Kimball 
William Scribner Kimball, 
Stanley Fisher Kimball,* 
Henry Maxwell Kimball, 
Bradford Fisher Kimball, 

* Died July 17, 18 



August 25, 1884, 

AT 

Plainfield, N. J. 

born Feb. 22, 1886 
" Aug. 28, 1887 
" Jan. 6, 1890 
" Feb. 17, 1892 
" Aug. 17, 1896 



John L. Phillips 

TO 

Daisy Howell 
Frances Lucas Phillips, 



October, 1884, 

AT 

New York City 

born March 5, 1896 



Georgt G Townsend 

TO 

Neenah Dodge 

CHILDREN ; 
George Gale Townsend, Jr., 
Emily Heath Townsend, 



October 16, 1884, 

AT 

Georgetown, D. C. 

. born Nov. 14, 1886 
" Tan. 29, 1888 



338 



MARRIAGES AND CHILDREN 



Thomas W. Cauldwell 




October 21, 1884, 


TO 




AT 


Caroline S. Johnson 




New York City 


CHILDREN : 


Elizabeth M. Cauldwell, 


. born Jan. 22, 1888 


Helen R. Cauldwell, . . 


" Nov. 28, 1891 


Henry McAlpin 




November, 1884, 


TO 




AT 


Claudia Thomas* 




Athens, Ga. 


* Died November 6, 1887. 


CHILD 




Claudia McAlpin, 


. born July 6, 18S7 


Henry McAlpin 




1894, 


TO 




AT 


Isabelle E. Wilbur 




South Bethlehem, Pa. 


Philip N. Jackson 




November 5, 1884, 


TO 




AT 


Margaret Atlee 




Germantown, Pa. 


CHILDREN : 


Nannie Nye Jackson, . 


. born Aug. 11, 1885 


Edith Atlee Jackson, 


" Oct. 6, 1886 


Frederick Wolcott Jackson, 3d, 


" Feb. 20, 1888 


Margaret Atlee Jackson, 


" Nov. II, 1890 


Philip Nye Jackson, Jr., 


'•' May 15, 1898 


Schuyler Brinkerhoff Jackson, 


" Aug. 18, 1900 


Gilbert W. Minor 




December 24, 1884, 


TO 




AT 


Emma J. Farling 




Albany, N. Y. 


CHILDRE 


n: 


A daughter,* .... 


. born April 12, 1889 


Helen Genevieve Minor, 


" Feb. 15, 1895 


* Died in inf 


ancy. 


James L. Coyle 




April 2, 1885, 


TO 




AT 


Clara B. Vanderhoof * 




Newark, N. J. 


* Died 18 


36. 


CHILD 




Clara V. Coyle, .... 


. born Sept. 29, 1886 



339 



AFTER TWENTY YEARS 



James L. Coyle 

TO 

Laura Frances Hartung 

John Henry Coyle, 



October i, 1891, 

AT 

Newark, N. J. 

born Dec. 29, 1897 



Henry D. Warren 

TO 

Sara Trumbull Van Lennep 

CHILDREN 

Trumbull Warren, . 
Helen Huntington Warren, 
Carolyn Warren, 



Harold Dorman Warren, 
Eric Alden Warren, 



June 17, 1885, 

AT 

Montclair, N. J. 

born July 18, 1886 
" April II, 1889 
" May 27, 1890 
" Oct. 25, 1896 
" Dec. 2, 1897 



Francis J. Orr 

TO 

Adena L. Lawrence 



September i, 1885, 

AT 

Wellington, Kan. 



Adena Esther Orr, . 
James Lawrence Orr, 
Anne L. Orr, . 
Albert F. Orr, . 



born June 21, 1886 

" Nov. I, 1888 

" July 26, 1 891 

" Sept. 14, 1895 



Frank M. Roseberry 

TO 

Delia M. Page 

C-HILDREN 
Clarence Depue Roseberry, . 
Florence MacKey Roseberry, 
Irene Delia Roseberry, . 



September 16, 1885, 

AT 

Remsen, Iowa 

. born Jan. 23, 1887 
" Sept. 24, 1892 
" June 7, 1896 



Henry L. Brant 

TO 

Cornelia L. Chase 

Clifford A. Brant, 
Hazel C. Brant, . 
Helen M. Brant, . 



CHILDREN : 



November 26, 1885, 

AT 

Newark, N. J. 

born Dec. II, 1887 
" June 23, 1890 
" March 27, 1892 



340 



MARRIAGES AND CHILDREN 



James Augustus Webb, Jr.* 

TO 

Nellie Sanford Packard 

* Died April 6, i8 



December 2, 1885, 

AT 

Springfield, Mass. 



Thomas Edward McLure * 



January 20, 1886, 

AT 

Rendalia, Ala. 



Maude Reynolds 

* Died April 27, 1889. 
CHILD : 
John Thomas McLure, . . born December 20, I 



Frank L. Bedell * 



January 21, i88( 

AT 

Newark, N. J. 



Harriet Matilda Webb 

♦ Died August 27, 1895. 

CHH^DREN : 

Arthur Douglas Bedell, . . . born Dec. 18, 1886 

Alexina Bedell, " Nov. 26, 189 1 



Charles Danforth * 



April 8, 1886, 



Claudia Ellen Greppo f Paterson, N. J. 

* Died March 13, 1896. t Died August 21, 1897. 

CHILDREN : 

Charles Ryle Danforth, . . . born Jan. 21, 1887 

Claudia Danforth, . . . . " July 18,1888 

Marion Ellen Danforth, . . . " March 16, 1895 



Stuart Brown 

TO 

Kate Logan Hay 

Milton Hay Brown, 
Christine Brown, 
Jane Logan Brown, . 



April 28, 1886, 

AT 

Springfield, 111. 

born April 2, 1887 
" Nov. 7, 1892 
" July 7, 1899 



Edward F. Crosby 

TO 

Jennie Eliza Brewer 

( 
Margaret Floyd Crosby, 



Spring of 1886, 

AT 

Brooklyn, N. Y. 
born June 20, 1887 



341 



AFTER TWENTY YEARS 



Robert Rogers Shellabarger * 

TO 

Sara Rivera Wood f 

• Died January lo, 1889. t 

CHILDREN 
Mildred Shellabarger,* 
Samuel Shellabarger, Jr., . 

* Died July 13, 1887 



June xy, 1886, 

AT 

Washington, D, C. 

Died June 23, 1892. 

. born March 12, 1887 
" May 18, 1888 



William S. Dodd 

TO 

Mary Louise Carter 

CHILDREN 
Edward Mills Dodd, . 

Nellie Dodd, 

Alexander Dickson Dodd, 
Wilson Farnsworth Dodd, 
Thomas Carter Dodd, 
Stuart Carter Dodd, 



June 24, 1886, 

AT 

New York City- 
born March 30, 1887 
" Feb. 21, 1890 
" Dec. 30, 1891 
" Oct. 7, 1893 
" Sept. 5, 1898 
" Oct. 3, 1900 



Frank P. Allen 

TO 

Minnie L. Taft 



Grace Allen, 
Katherine Allen, 
Frank Taft Allen, 



CHILDREN 



September i, 1886, 

AT 

Ballston Spa, N. Y. 

. born Aug. 3, 1887 
" Sept. 26, 1892 
" Oct. 27, 1894 



David Wills, Jr. , 

TO 

Eloise McNair Baker 

CHILDREN 
David Wills, 3d, ... . 
Virginia McNair Wills, . 



October 6, 1886, 

AT 

Somerville, N. J. 

. born July 20, 1887 
" Oct. 14, 1889 



Henry B. Walsh 



Nellie A. Hewson 

CHILDREN : 
Alexander Robertson Walsh, 
Edward Stanton Walsh, 



October 12, 1886, 

AT 

St. Paul, Minn. 

. born Oct. 6, 1890 
" Feb. 18, 1892 



342 



MARRIAGES AND CHILDREN 



Alexander McCune 

TO 

Clara A. McNair 



October 20, i8i 

AT 

Lima, N. Y. 



CHILDREN : 
Clara McCune, . . . ; . born Jan. 22, 1888 
Mary McNair McCune, ..." Oct. 19, 1890 
Anna Louise McCune, . . . " March 21, 1893 



James M. Wilson 

TO 

Minnie E. Douglass 



October 20, 188 

AT 

Topeka, Kan. 



William N. Strong * 

TO 

Josephine Douglass 



November 3, 1886, 

AT 

Washington, D. C. 



* Died June 6, 1892. 

CHILD : 

William Strong, Jr., . . . . born Aug. 20, 1887 



Charles Edmiston Craven 

TO 

Anna Schenck McDougall 



December 28, 1886, 

AT 

York, Pa. 



Virginia Coryell Craven, . 
Sarah Landreth Craven, 
Julia McDougall Craven, . 
James McDougall Craven, 
Charles Edmiston Craven, Jr., 



born Nov. 8, 1887 
" Oct. 18, 1889 
" Aug. 7, 1891 
" March 17, 1894 
" Aug. 7, 1897 



John Bonner Skinner 

TO 

Jane Lapham Barnard 



February i, 188 

AT 

Chicago, 111. 



Charles Carroll Robbins 

TO 

Edna Thompson 



October 12, 188 

AT 

Urbana, Ohio 



CHILD : 
Elsie Robbins, born Aug. 9, 1892 



343 



AFTER TWENTY YEARS 



Charles R. Gill 

TO 

Clara Devoe Gardner 



October 25, 188' 

AT 

Catskill, N. Y. 



Charles Robert Gill, Jr. 
Grace Dolores Gill, 
Robert Gill.t . 
Martha Elizabeth Gill, . 
Clara Leonor Gill, 

♦ Died June 19, 18J 



born Sept. 27, 1888 

" Nov. 4, 1890 

" July I, 1893 

" Feb. 19, 1895 

" Nov. 12, 1896 
t Died January 16, 1895. 



Arthur C. Dougherty 

TO 

Mary G. Vose 



December 12, 1887 

AT 

Brooklyn, N. Y. 
child: 
Clarence V. Dougherty, . . . born Sept. 27, 1888 



James S. Hillhouse 

TO 

Belle Boaz 

CHILDREN : 
Walter Boaz Hillhouse, 
Joseph Newton Hillhouse, . 
Nida Hillhouse, .... 



March i, 1888, 

AT 

Calhoun, Ga. 

born Jan. 29, 1889 
" Jan. 25, 1891 
" Dec. 24, 1892 



S. Graeme Harrison 

TO 

Mrs. F. A. Marquand 



March 17, 1888, 

AT 

Thomasville, Ga. 



CHILDREN : 

Graeme Harrison, born April 3, 1889 

Randolph Harrison,* . . . . " May 31, 1892 

Ellen Harrison, " Nov. 30, 1893 

* Died in infancy. 



Joseph D. Hubbard 

TO 

Janet Watson 



April 19, 1888, 

AT 

Evanston, 111. 



344 



MARRIAGES AND CHILDREN 



Henry M. Payne 

TO 

Frances Randolph Hargrove 

CHILDREN 

Marion Hargrove Payne, . 
Sarah A. Payne, .... 
Frances Payne, .... 



May I, 1888, 

AT 

Baltimore, Md. 

born April 18, 1889 
" June 17, 1891 
" March 3, 1896 



George C. Frost 

TO 

Claudia Bennett 



July 25, 1888, 

AT 

Three Rivers, Mich. 



George Antes Frost,* .... born Sept. 15, 1890 

Elizabeth Claudia Frost, . . . " Jan. 30, 1900 

* Died November 23. 1896. 



Frank Gledhill 

TO 

Florence E. Ferine 



William Gledhill,* 



August 16, 1888, 

AT 

Fruit Vale, Cal. 
born June 20, 1889 



* Died September 20, 18 



x\ndrew C. Armstrong 

TO 

Mabel Lester Murray 



September 6, 188 

AT 

Princeton, N. J. 



CHILDREN : 

Andrew Campbell Armstrong, 3d,* born June 5, 1890 

James Syng Armstrong, . . . " July 25, 1894 

Sinclair Wallace Armstrong, . . " March 31, 1897 

* Died April 10, 1891. 



Walter I. McCoy 

TO 

Kate Philbrick Baldwin 

CHILDREN : 
Percy Beach McCoy, 2d, 
Philbrick McCoy, . . . . 
Catherine Baldwin McCoy, . 



October 17, 1888, 

AT 

New York City 

born Dec. 11, 1889 
" Nov. 14, 1897 
" Sept. 20, 1899 



545 



AFTER TWENTY YEARS 



William A. Robinson 

TO 

Anna Green MacLaren 

CHILDREN : 

Elizabeth MacLaren Robinson, . 
Thomas Hastings Robinson, 3d, 



November 26, 1888 

AT 

Brooklyn, N. Y. 

. born Feb. 8, 1890 
" Jan. 18, 1893 



Thomas Budd Bradford * 



December 18, 1888, 



Helen Rogers | Wilmington Del. 

* Supposed to be dead. 

child: 

Thomas Budd Bradford, Jr., . . . born Feb. 4, 1890 



Richard D. Harlan 

TO 

Mrs. Margaret Prouty Swift 



June 5, 1889, 

AT 

Geneva, N. Y. 



George L. Van Alen 

TO 

May D. Henderson 

CHILDREN 

Oakley Henderson Van Alen, 
Ambrose Henderson Van Alen, . 
Cornelia Burrows Van Alen, 



Jmie 26, 1889, 

AT 

Montgomery, Pa. 

. born July 29, 1893 
" July II, 1898 
" Nov. 4, 1899 



William S. McMurdy 

TO 

Fanny Maccabe 

CHILDREN 
William George McMurdy, 
Katharine Dorothy McMurdy, . 



October 23, 1889, 

AT 

New York City 

born July 29, 1890 
" April 14, 1896 



Julian G. Olds 



John O. H. Pitney 

TO 

Roberta A. Ballantine 

John Ballantine Pitney, 



January 15, 1890, 

AT 

Newark, N. J. 
born Dec. 12, 1892 



346 



MARRIAGES AND CHILDREN 



A. Pennington Whitehead 

TO 

Agnes H. Strang 



May 2 1, 1890, 

AT 

New York City 



Samuel H. Myers 

TO 

Honor a Stern, 



June 25, 1890, 

AT 

Athens, Ga. 



Stanley K. Phraner 

TO 

Elizabeth Pennell * 

• Died February 12, 



August, 1890, 



Stanley K. Phraner * 

TO 

Eliza L. Westervelt 

* Died January 15, 
CHILDREN : 
Wilson Westervelt Phraner, 
Stanley Lansing Phraner, . 



July 7, 1892, 

AT 

Chieng Mai, Laos 



born July 29, 1893 
" Sept. 16, 1894 



Robert Williams 

TO 

Alice Winslow Ingham 



Robert Williams, Jr., 
Henry A. Williams, 



April 23, 1891, 

AT 

Atlantic City, N. J. 

. born Jan. 27, 1892 
" Jan. 15, 1895 



George S. Schmidt 

TO 

Mary Richardson Small 

c: 
Mary R. Schmidt, . 

George S. Schmidt, Jr., 

Samuel S. Schmidt, 



June 16, 1 89 1, 

AT 

York, Pa, 

born Feb. 25, 1893 
" Dec. 18, 1895 
" Nov. 2, 1897 



Henry C. Thom 

TO 

Julia Goebel 
Margaret Thorn, 



September 23, 1891, 

AT 

St. Charles, Mo. 

. born July 14, 1892 



347 



AFTER TWENTY YEARS 



J. Leveret t Moore 

TO 

Nancy Clark Williams 
Nancy Campbell Moore, 



December 23, 1891, 

AT 

Baltimore, Md. 
. born May 13, 1893 



Henry Sayre Scribner 

TO 

Mary Lee Myers 



December 28, 1891, 

AT 

Plainfield, N. J. 



CHILDREN : 
Henry Lee Scribner, .... born March 29, 1 893 
Joseph Myers Scribner, . . . " June 14, 1897 



Walter W. Preston 
Mrs. Lilli^e° Pue Hall 



November 2, 1892, 

AT 

Bel Air, Md. 



Robert Haddow 

TO 

Eleanor Caldwell 

CHILDREN 

George Caldwell Haddow, . 
William Robert Haddow, . 
Marion Haddow, .... 



July II, 1893, 

AT 

Milton, Ont. 

born Aug. 5, 1894 
" March 5, 1897 
" Oct. 4, 1898 



Frank R. Symmes 

TO 

Elizabeth Smith Jewell 



Septeml)er 26, 1893, 

AT 

Asbury Park, N. J. 



CHILDREN : 

Dorothy Symmes, born Sept. i, 1894 

Marion Symmes " Aug. 15, 1S95 



John L. Kirk 

TO 

Alice Amy Flemming 



January 15, 1894, 

AT 

Jersey City, N. J. 



CHILDREN : 

Robert Linton Kirk,* .... born Dec. 25, 1895 

Sara Flemming Kirk, . . . . " Feb. 23, 1900 

* Died in infancy. 



348 



MARRIAGES AND CHILDREN 



William H. Vanderburgh 

TO 

Mile. Jeanne Ferret 

CHILDREN : 

Francine Mygatt Vanderburgh, . 
Charles Edwin Vanderburgh, 2d, 



February i, 1894, 

AT 

Paris, France 

. born May 30, 1897 
" May 10, 1900 



Edwin A. Dix 

TO 

Marion Alden Olcott 



August 15, 1895, 

AT 

Cherry Valley, N. Y. 



Edward H. Small 
Elizabeth Tindle 



April 21, 1897, 

AT 

Pittsburg, Pa. 



Francis G. Landon 

TO 

Mary Hornor Toel 
Adelaide Landon, 



May 20, 1897, 

AT 

New York City 

. born July 3, 1898 



Charles N. Gosman 

TO 

Charlotte E. Murphy 



September 21, 1897, 

AT 

Billings, Mont. 



Henry G. Duffield 

TO 

Florence L. Morrell 

Susan Cornelia Duffield, 



November 8, 1899, 

AT 

Hartford, Ct. 

. born Feb. 4, 1901. 



Charles E. Manierre 

TO 

Elizabeth Hunt Wellina: 



January 3, 1900, 

AT 

New York City 



Arthur H. Scribner 

TO 

Helen Culbertson Annan 



January 29, 1900, 

AT 

New York City 



349 



AFTER TWENTY YEARS 



Warren J. Flick 

TO 

Dixie Lee Sterne 


September 25, 1900, 

AT 

Columbia, Mo. 


Charles Grant Titsworth 

TO 

Elizabeth Linen Dawson 


June 4, 1901, 

AT 

Newark, N. J. 



350 



DEATHS 

'* For some we loved, the loveliest and the best 
That from his Vintage rolling Time hath prest. 

Have drunk their Cup a Round or two before. 
And one by one crept silently to rest." 

Eliston Rush Bateman, April 30, 1887 

At Cedarville, N. J. 

Frank L. Bedell, August 27, 1895 

At Saranac Lake, N. Y. 

Thomas Budd Bradford (gar^d), June 30, 1893 
From Wilmington, Del. 

Adam Todd Bruce, February 9, 1887 

At Ismailia, Egypt. 

Edward Floyd Crosby, May 16, 1890 

At Helena, Mont. 

Charles Danforth, March 13, 1896 

At Athens, Greece. 

Edward Gilder, December 21, 1890 

At New York City (?). 

David Adams Haynes, December 8, 1890 

At New York City. 
351 



AFTER TWENTY YEARS 

Thomas Danforth King, December 23, 1888 

At Springfield, O. 

Reuben Lowrie, September 7, 1879 

At Princeton, N. J. 

Edward F. Matthews, Date prior to 1892 

Place Unknown. 

Horace McDermont, July 12, 1897 

At Oxford, O. 

Charles McKee, July 31, 1882 

At Lewistown, Pa. 

Thomas Edward McLure, April 27, 1889 
At Chester, S. C. 

Lyman G. Morey, August 8, 1888 

At Berts Lake, Mich. 

E. Dunbar Price, December 4, 1890 

At New York City. 

William Hugh Rendall, October 22, 1882 

At Lincoln University, Pa. 

Adrian Scharff, November 2, 1890 

At Nashville, Tenn. 

Irwin B. Schultz, June 28, 1880 

At Princeton, N. J. 

James P. Shaw, May 26, 1880 

At Princeton, N. J. 

Robert R. Shellabarger^ January 10, 1889 

At Washington, D C 
352 



DEATHS 

William N. Strong, June 6, 1892 

At Brooklyn, N. Y. 

James A. Webb, Jr., April 6, 1887 

At Madison, N. J. 

Henry B. Welles, October 30, 1890 

At Las Cruces, N. M. 

Joseph Moss White, March 22, 1888 

At Paris, France. 



353 



'8 1 IN THE SPANISH WAR 

"He has singed the beard of the King of Spain." 

Frank P. Allen 

Captain of Battery A, North Dakota National Guard 

Resigned in fall of 1898 on finding that no Artillery from that State 
would be called into the United States Volunteer service ; and on Decem- 
ber 14, 1898, was by the Governor appointed State Quartermaster and 
Disbursing Agent for the militia of the State, which office he still holds. 

Stuart Brown 

Captain and Adjutant, Fifth Illinois Volunteer Infantry 

At Camp Thomas, Ga. Regiment started for Cuba, but the order was 
countermanded. Embarked for Porto Rico, but peace was declared be- 
fore arrival there. 

Charles R. Gill, M.D. 

Field Agent of the Red Cross Society. Afterward Acting As- 
sistant Surgeon, United States Army 

At Camp Thomas, Tampa and Santiago ; Leader of Relief Expedition 
into Santiago Province. At Matanzas and Cardenas ; invalided 
home with typhoid fever ; then successively at Fort Hamilton, 
N. Y., Fort Trumbull, Ct., and Fort Wood, New York Harbor. 
Now Assistant Surgeon of Volunteers, with the rank of Captain, 
and ordered to Manila. 

John L. Phillips, M.D. 

Surgeon in the United States Regular Army, with the rank 
of Major 

In camp in North Carolina during the war. Afterward ordered to the 
Philippines, and now stationed in Aparri, in the northern part of Luzon. 

354 



'81 IN THE SPANISH WAR 

Walter F. Robinson, M.D 

Surgeon, First New York Volunteer Infantry 

At San Francisco and the Sandwich Islands, peace being declared 
before the regiment continued on to Manila. 

Rev. J. Spencer Voorhees 

Chaplain of the Third Connecticut Volunteer Infantry ; appointed 
by the Governor of Connecticut 

At Camp Haven, Ct. ; then at Camp Meade, Pa. ; invalided home for 
ten weeks with typhoid fever ; then at Camp Marion, S. C. ; then at 
Camp Onward, near Savannah, Ga. Mustered out March 20, 1 899. 




DENNIS. 



355 



CLASS LIBRARY 
Books Written by Members of '8i 

A. C. Armstrong, Ph.D. : 
History of Modern Philosophy. 

New York : Henry Holt & Co. 1893. 

Adam Todd Bruce, Ph.D. : 

Observations on the Embryology of Insects and 

Arachnids. 

Edited by W. K. Brooks, Ph.D. (Quarto, 47 pages, 
7 plates, $3.00.) Published as a Memorial. 1888. 

Charles Henry Butler: 
Our Treaty with Spain. 

Washington Law Book Co. 1899. 
The Treaty-Making Power of the United States. 

New York: Banks Law Publishing Co. 1901. 

Rev. Charles Edmiston Craven : 

Jesus and Children. 

Philadelphia: Presbyterian Board of Publication. 1896. 

Edwin A. Dix : 

A Midsummer Drive Through the Pyrenees. 

New York : G. P. Putnam's Sons. 1890. 
Deacon Bradbury. A Novel. 

New York : The Century Co. 1900. 
Old Bowen's Legacy. A Novel. 
New York: The Century Co. 1901. 
356 



CLASS LIBRARY 

Arthur L. Kimball, Ph.D. : 

The Physical Properties of Gases. Riverside Science 
Series. 

New York: Houghton, Mifflin & Co. 1890. 

Rev. Edward Randall Knowles, LL.D. : 
Songs of the Life Eternal. 

Boston : J. Stilman Smith & Co. 1891. 
EccE Regnum and Other Poems. 

Worcester : Messenger Co. 1892. 

The True Christian Science. 
1892. 

The Supremacy of the Spiritual. 

Boston: The Arena Co. 1895. (Out of Print.) 

J. Leverett Moore, Ph.D. : 

Latin Prose Exercises. 

New York : University Publishing Co. 1898. 

L. D. Ricketts, Sc.D.: 

The Ores of Leadville and their Modes of Occur- 
rence. 

New York: 1883. 

Biennial Reports as Territorial Geologist of Wy- 
oming. 

Cheyenne: 1887 and 1889. 

Rev. Paul van Dyke, D.D, : 

The Age of the Renascence. 

New York : Charles Scribner's Sons. 1897. 
357 



AFTER TWENTY YEARS 

William T. Vlymen, Ph.D. : 
Columbus Reader, First Book. 
<< " Second Book. 

'< " Third 

'•' " Fourth " 

New York : Schwartz, Kirvvin & Fauss. 1901. 

Idylls of the King. School Edition. 
New York: Macmillan & Co. 1901. 

TOTAL PUBLISHED BOOKS, 23. 



358 



OCCUPATIONS 

EXPECTATION AND REALITY 

'8 1 men have on the whole carried out their 
life -plans, as expressed at graduation, fairly well. 
The accompanying list gives the Nassau Herald's 
statement of their purposes, and the present Record's 
statement of the accomplishment or non-accom- 
plishment of those purposes. 



Name. 



Intention Twenty 
Years Ago. 



Present Occupation. 



Frank P. Allen , 

James R. Archer 

A. C. Armstrong, Jr. . . . 

William S. Bacot 

Clifford Rhodes Barret . . 
Benj. B. Blydenburgh. . . 

Robert C. Bradish 

J. S. Brandt 

Henry L. Brandt 

David C. Breckinridge . . 

Stuart Brown 

Charles Henry Butler. . . 

Thos. W. Cauldwell . 

Lewis Cory 

William A. Coursen, Jr. 

John F . Cowan 

James L. Coyle 

Charles E. Craven 

Wm. A. Darden 

Frederic M. Davis 

William C. Davis 

Edwin A. Dix 



Civil Engineering . . 
Mining Engineering. 

Undecided 

Civil Engineering 

Undecided 

Law 

Farming 

Dentist 

Law 

Law 

Law 

Law 

Undecided 

Undecided 

Law 

Business 

Teac?iing 

Undecided 

Ministry 

Business 

Law 

Literature 



Law. 

Mining. 

Prof, of Philosophy. 

Civil Engineering. 

R.R. Business. 

Law. 

Travelling Salesman. 

Dentist. 

Law. 

R.R. Supplies. 

Law. 

Law. 

Law. 

Law. 

Business. 

Bus. and Mining. 

Life Insurance. 

Ministry. 

Ministry. 

Paper Business. 

Law. 

Literature. 



359 



AFTER TWENTY YEARS 



Name. 



Wm. S. Dodd 

William A. Dougall, 

Arthur C. Dougherty.... 

Henry G. Duffield 

Charles E. Dunn 

Edwin M. Ellis 

T. H. Powers Farr 

Pliny Fisk 

Warren J. Flick 

Willis Fowler 

Geo. C. Frost 

Charles R. Gill, Jr 

Frank Gledhill 

Charles N. Gosman 

J. Ross Grove 

Robert Haddow 

Edwd. P. T. Hammond . 

Richard D. Harlan 

S. Graeme Harrison 

James S. Hillhouse 

Joseph D. Hubbard 

Alex. M. Hudnut 

R. H. Hutchins 

William Ingham 

Philip N. Jackson 

Arthur L. Kimball 

John L. Kirk 

Edward Randall Knowles. 

Francis G. Landon 

Louis J. Lang 

Francis Loney 

Z. K. Loucks 

Henry McAlpin 

Walter L McCoy 

Alexander McCune 

Wm. S. McMurdy 

George L. McNutt 

Charles E. Manierre 

Gilbert W. Minor 

R. Grier Monroe 

Wm. J. Montgomery.... 

J. Leverett Moore 

Charles A. Munn 

Samuel H. Myers 

Julian G. Olds 

Francis J. Orr 

H. M. Payne 



Intention Twenty 
Years Ago. 



Medicine 

Law 

Medicine 

Business 

Ministry 

Ministry 

Business 

Business 

Mining Engineering 

Law 

Ministry 

Medicine 

Law 

Medicine 

Law 

Business 

Undecided 

Ministry 

Law 

Ministry 

Law 

Undecided 

Medicine 

Undecided 

Business 

Teaching 

Law 

Law 

Business 

Journalism 

Law 

Law 

Law 

Law 

Law 

Medicine 

Ministry 

Law 

Law 

Law 

None 

Undecided 

Business 

Business 

Law 

Ministry 

Law 



Present Occupation. 



Medical Missionary. 

Teaching. 

Medicine. 

Ass't Treas., P. U. 

Ministry. 

Ministry. 

Broker. 

Banker. 

Mining Engineering. 

Patent Law. 

Ministry. 

Medicine, U. S. Army. 

Law and Politics. 

Assaying. 

None. 

Ministry. 

Lawyer. 

Ministry. 

None. 

Ministry. 

Law. 

Broker. 

Medicine. 

None. 

Business. 

Professor of Physics. 

Law. 

Old-Catholic Priest. 

Legislature. 

Journalism. 

Bus. and Real Estate. 

Law, 

Law. 

Law. 

Law. 

Medicine. 

Ministry & Day-Labor. 

Law. 

Law. 

Patent Law & Politics. 

Cotton Factor. 

Professor of Latin. 

Bus. and Patent Law. 

Law. 

Unknown. 

Ministry. 

Private Secretary. 



360 



OCCUPATIONS 



Name. 


Intention Twenty 
Years Ago. 


Present Occupation. 


John L. Phillips 


Medicine 


Medicine, U. S. Army. 
Law. 


John 0. H. Pitney 

H. C. Porter 


Law 


Law 


Teaching. 

Law. 

Business. 


Walter W. Preston 

Alex. T. Reid 


Undecided 

Business 


Louis D. Ricketts 

Chas. Carroll Robbins . . . 


Undecided 

Teaching 


Mining Engineer. 
Law. 


■Edward G. Roberts 


Business 


Real Estate, etc. 


William H. Roberts 


Business 


None at present. 

Teaching. 

Medicine. 

Business, Gas Engines. 

Law. 


Prof. Wm. A. Robinson. . 

Walter F. Robinson 

Addison S. Rogers 

Frank M. Roseberry .... 
George S. Schmidt 


Undecided 

Undecided 

Undecided 

Law 

Law 


T. B. Schneideman 

Arthur H. Scribner 

Henry S. Scribner 

H. C. Selheimer 

John I. Shaw 


Medicine 

Business 

Undecided 

Law 

Business 


Medicine. 

Publishing Business. 

Professor of Greek. 

Law. 

Business and Politics. 


George M. Sinclair 


Business 


Mech. Ensineerino". 


John Bonner Skinner 


Law ^ 


Law and Business. 


Edward H. Small 


Medicine 


Medicine. 


Lewis H. Stanton 


None 


Banker and Broker. 


James B. Stokes 


Unknown ..;... 


None. 


Frank R. Symmes 

Henry C. Thom 

.Charles G. Titsworth 


Undecided 

R. R. Business . . 

Law 


Ministry. 

Beef-Packing Manager. 
Title Officer 


George G. Townsend. . . . 
George L. Van Alen 


Civil Engineering . . 
Ministry 


Civ. & Min'g Engin'g. 

Ministry. 

Care of Estate 


Wm. H. Vanderburgh... 


Law 


Paul van Dyke 

William T. Vlymen , 

J. Spencer Voorhees 


Undecided 

Medicine 

Ministry 


Professor of History. 

Teaching. 

Ministry. 

Business, Fuel Co. 

Rubber Business. 

Chmn, Bd. Supervisors. 

Law. 


Henry B. Walsh 

H. D. Warren 

Thomas D. Warren 

A. Pennington Whitehead. 


Business 

Rubber Business . . . 

Undecided 

Law 


Robert Williams 

David Wills, Jr 


Law 

Ministry 

Ministry 


Law. 

Ministry. 

Ministry. 


James M. Wilson 



361 



GENERAL SUMMARY 



I. Numerical 

Graduate members of the Class : 

Academic 92 

Scientific 6 

Civil Engineering 3 

Special I 

Non-graduate members 

Total number connected with the Class . 



102 
46 

148 



II. Vital 

Members of the Class 





Living 


Dead 


Unknown 


Totals 


Single . 


28 


13 







41 


Married 


. . 83 


10 




I 


94 


Widowers 





2 







2 


Unknown 


2 


I 




8 


1 1 


Totals 


. . 113 

Children 


26 




9 


148 




Living 




Dead 




Totals 


Bovs 


. . . 98 




12 




no 


Girls 


88 




4 




92 



Totals .... 186 16 202 

These 202 children are distributed among 72 families. 
The Decennial Record reported 89 children, of whom 4 had died. 
362 



GENERAL SUMMARY 



III. Present Occupations 




Clergymen 

Lawyers .... 

Physicians 

Dentists .... 

Professors and Teachers . 

Authors .... 


I 5 General Business 
33 Bankers and Brokers 

9 Mining and Engineering 

I Secretaries, etc. 

9 Newspaper Men . 

I No Occupations 


16 

4 

7 

3 

I 

10 


IV 


Politics 




Republicans 

Democrats, Gold or Cl'v'd 
Bryan . 
" Plam . 


62 Independents . 

5 Prohibitionists . 

I Tories .... 
1 1 


6 

z 
I 


V. Religious Affiliations 




Presbyterian . 

Congregational 

Episcopalian 

Baptist .... 


48 Lutheran .... 

4 Universalist 
1 3 Roman Catholic 

3 Independent . 


I 
I 
I 
I 



363 




A-A-APPLES, SIR 



APPENDIX 



365 



SUPPLEMENT 



TO 



"After Twenty Years." 

CLASS OF 1881 



THE TWENTIETH-YEAR REUNION 

By J. Leverett Moore. 

The first act in 'Eighty-one's Twentieth-Year 
Reunion was the opening of the Class headquarters, 
at 32 Mercer Street, on Saturday morning, June 
8th, by draping the Orange and Black banner with 
1 88 1 on it across the front of the house. Hudnut 
brought in some flags and uniforms that had figured 
in the Sesquicentennial parade, which helped to give 
the rooms a pleasant and patriotic appearance. 
Early in the day the sale of the Record began, and 
everybody was loud in praise of its attractive appear- 
ance and fine literary character.* In the afternoon 
came the ball game with Yale, and headed by Charlie 
Munn and Dick Harlan, the Class, with 23 men in 
Hne, marched down to the University Grounds with 
brass band and banner, orange hat-bands and flags. 
The result of the game was a foregone conclusion 
with '81 on the field, and Princeton won with a score 
of 15 to 5 

* This statement is entirely ex parte, because the member of the 
Committee who makes it is absolved by his inaction from any share in 
the praise. 

3 



AFTER TWENTY YEARS 

In the evening the fellows really got together, and 
with Dix at the piano broke forth into song, which 
continued until after midnight. This was the even- 
ing of Frank Landon's debut as a vocalist. Dick 
Harlan and Farr soon withdrew from the contest 
and left Frank undisputed master of the field. C. 
C. Cuyler, '79, was welcomed as a prominent mem- 
ber of the Class which we had come at the very 
beginning of our course to regard as a model and a 
friend, and all were glad to hear him tell about the 
great Princeton spirit of to-day as compared with 
the apathy of our times. This was no doubt an 
old story to the men in New York and nearby, who 
go back to Princeton at least once a year, but for 
those of the Class who live at a distance or who have 
been growing rather out of touch with the old col- 
lege, it was a great awakener of interest and loyalty. 

Sunday, the 9th, passed off as peacefully as one 
would expect, and in the evening singing and story- 
telling were once more resumed at headquarters. 
This was Sam Myers's night and he scored a great 
success in story-telling, pointing high along the lines 
of wit, style and high moral character of his anec- 
dotes. Landon would have to look to his laurels. 

Monday, the loth, was such a beautiful day that 
the athletic spirit of the Class awoke — a scrub game 
of baseball was gotten up on Brokaw Field. Dick 
Harlan, magnanimously waiving all the advantages 
which spring from a big family backing, challenged 

4 



SUPPLEMENT 

Vlymen to a lOO-yard race for the Heavy-Weight 
Championship of the Class, and Farr renewed his 
offer to defend the CJass Championship in Golf. 
Encouraged by their success, the Class determined 
to challenge '91 to play baseball the next day, and 
then adjourned to Paul van Dyke's for luncheon. 
Everybody enjoyed heartily the hospitality of the 
" little house at the end of Library Place," and 
especially the opportunity of meeting the wives of 
several members of the Class — " The Girls of '81" — 
Mrs. Dix, Mrs. Duffield, Mrs. Harlan, Mrs. Rob- 
inson and Mrs. Titsworth. As a social event, van 
Dyke's luncheon was one of the most enjoyable 
features of the Reunion, In the evening we gath- 
ered together at headquarters as usual and spent the 
time in singing and talking over things past and 
present. 

Tuesday, June iith, was made memorable by 
the ball game with '91. Never before had the un- 
suspected athletic powers of the Class been revealed 
in so signal a manner. It was well worth waiting 
twenty years to see Charlie Munn pitch the whole 
game through, growing more steady and more effect- 
ive with each succeeding inning. Van Alen cast 
off clerical dignity with his coat, stopped grounders 
and short-bounds and pulled down flies that looked 
like sure hits. But our " bright, particular star " 
played behind the plate. Regardless of dust and 
grass-stains Landon dashed hither and yon for foul 

5 



AFTER TWENTY YEARS 

flies and third strikes and electrified the spectators by 
the reckless abandon of his play. 'Ninety-one were 
not able to get out a full nine, but they bravely 
tackled "the old men of '8i," with what they could 
muster, and recruited their members from the spec- 
tators as their men dropped at the coaching-lines. 
They took a commanding lead at the start, but 
gradually '8i kept adding here a run and there a 
run, until at the end of the ninth inning the score 
stood — fateful numbers! — 19 to 18 in favor of '81. 

After the strenuous life of the morning, the Class 
was ready to attempt even an Alumni Dinner in 
the afternoon and listen to the long list of speakers^ 
including Harlan, as the representative of the Class, 
who spoke about the necessity of balancing the 
spirit of athletic enthusiasm outside by the spirit 
of scholarship and democracy inside the college. 
It was there that men shculd get the true idea of 
citizenship and grow to think less of their rights 
and more of their duties toward their fellow-men. 
The college man often fails to influence the com- 
munity because he regards himself as an exceptional 
being, not obliged to conform to the standards of 
honesty and conduct prevailing in the world at 
large. 

When the dinner was over, all the Class went to 
pay Mrs. McCosh a short visit, and after she had 
given us a most gracious welcome, Munn presented 
her with a copy of the Class Record — " After 

6 



SUPPLEMENT 

Twenty Years," appropriately inscribed by the edi- 
tor, Edwin A. Dix. We then attended President 
Patten's reception, inspected the '8i collection of 
casts in the Art Museum, and finally went back 
to headquarters for a class-meeting and a class- 
picture.* 

A business meeting of the Class was held at 6 
P.M., June II, I90i,at the headquarters on Mercer 
Street. The minutes of the last meeting, October 
21, 1896, were read and approved. 

The first business was the election of officers, and 
C. A. Munn and H. G. Duffield were nominated 
for President. It was voted that the candidate 
receiving the second highest number of votes be 
elected Vice-President of the Class, and a ballot 
being taken, Munn was re-elected President and 
Duffield was elected Vice-President. A. L. Kim- 
ball, Secretary of the Class, resigned, and nomi- 
nated E. A. Dix in his stead. There being no 
further nominations, the Secretary was directed to 
cast a ballot for Dix and he was declared elected. 
A. M. Hudnut was re-elected Treasurer, the Secre- 
tary casting a vote for those present. All the above 
officers were elected to hold office until the next 
regular reunion of the Class, which it was voted 
should take place in 1906. 

* Copies (price $i.oo) of this, as well as of the other picture taken on 
Saturday on the way to the ball game, can be obtained from R. H. Rose 
& Son, Princeton, N. J. 

7 



AFTER TWENTY YEARS 

The following resolutions were also passed : — 

Voted : That the President of the Class appoint 
the Committee to have charge of the next reunion. 
The following Committee was appointed : Munn, 
President; Duffield, Vice-President ; Dix, Secretary; 
Hudnut, Treasurer; Pitney, Scribner and van 
Dyke. 

Voted : That the President appoint such com- 
mittees as he may see fit to prepare resolutions 
in memory of deceased members. Coyle, Pitney 
and van Dyke were appointed as such a Com- 
mittee. 

On motion the meeting adjourned. 



SUPPLEMENT 



At eight o'clock the Class assembled at the Prince- 
ton Inn for the Class Dinner; 40 members were 
present, and C. A. Munn, President of the Class, 
presided. The order of seating was as follows : — 



M 
DIX 
FARR 
VAN DYKE 
VOORHEES 
PRESTON 
COURSEN 
HUDNUT 

SINCLAIR 

A. SCRIBNER 

W. A. ROBINSON 

MOORE 
TITSWORTH 
CRAVEN 
CAULDWELL 
HUBBARD 
BRANT 
VAN ALEN 
KIMBALL 
REID 



UNN 

HARLAN 
PITNEY 

LANDON 

FOWLER 
MONROE 
BUTLER 
CORY 
DUFFIELD 
JACKSON 
MYERS 
F DAVIS 
BROWN 
COYLE 
McMURDY 
T. D. WARREN 
ROBBINS 
MANIERRE 
DUNN 
THOM 
VLYMEN 



Schmidt was in town, but could not stay over to 
the dinner, and Symmes came in the next morning. 



AFTER TWENTY YEARS 

The menu was as follows : — 

H Little Neck Clams on the Half 
Shell T[ Consomme Royal H Olives: 
Salted Almonds : Radishes T[ Ken- 
nebec Salmon, Hollandaise : Cu- 
cumbers ^f Potatoes Parisienne 
H Tenderloin of Beef, Larded, with 
Mushrooms *\\ Green Peas ^[ Punch 
T[ Turkish Cigarettes H Roast 
Capon : Compote of Cherries 
^f Asparagus, served cold ^ Broiled 
Philadelphia Squab : Lettuce Salad 
11 Fresh Straw^berries : Ice Cream : 
Petit Fours 1[ Roquefort Cheese 
with Toasted Biscuit Tj Coffee 



lO 



SUPPLEMENT 

When the dinner had been served, the President 
read a Hst of the deceased members of the Class and 
a toast was drunk in silence to their memory. Then, 
after a letter from Armstrong had been read, Dix 
was called upon for the first toast of the evening — 
" The Class," all rising and singing " Here's to 
'Eighty-one ! " Dix's speech was partly in a hu- 
morous vein, touching on various well-remembered 
incidents of our undergraduate days, . He recalled 
Dr. McCosh's solemn assurance at graduation that 
we were "the finest class that iver graduated from 
me college," and remarked that we could blushingly 
accept this as strictly true, since Jimmie himself had 
said it. " The class," he went on, " signalized itself 
— or part of itself — at the very outset of its Fresh- 
man career, by doing something that no other class, 
so far as I know, has ever ventured to do ; it turned 
the tables and hazed a part of the Sophomore class. 
Among my most cherished possessions is a lurid 
pink Police-Gazette woodcut of two certain as- 
tounded and indignant '80 men, standing with arms 
tied above their heads, their hair shaved off, and 
Horace McDermont applying the mucilage brush, 
and Ed. and Harry Matthews negotiating the pad- 
dles, while seven other members of '8 i stood around 
to see that order was preserved." After lightly re- 
viewing other incidents in the Class's college career, 
he gave a number of interesting statistics based on 
those in the Record, and enided with a humorous 

II 



AFTER TWENTY YEARS 

version of a current poem parodied to fit the class. 
When Dix had finished, Munn sprung a great sur- 
prise on him by presenting him a large silver loving- 
cup in the name of the Class, as a mark of their 
appreciation of the time and pains he had devoted 
to editing the Class Record and the great artistic 
and literary success which he had achieved with it. 
After Dix's reply the cup passed round the table 
and all present drank his health. 

Harlan was then called upon to respond to the 
toast of " George Washington," as he had once 
assumed that role amid the varied incidents of his 
checkered career. After a number of Washington 
and other stories, he closed with a tribute to college 
friendships, and declared that, even though he was 
thinking of becoming a College President himself, 
he would never fail in loyalty to Princeton. The 
Class then rose up and sang " Here's to Nassau 
Hall." 

Van Dyke, the excellence of whose household 
management was said to prove him a confirmed 
bachelor, was next called upon to speak for " The 
Popes of the Renascence" (cf Record, p. 357), 
and in response read a very clever poem taking off 
the various members of the Class. It was voted 
forthwith that the poem should be printed in the 
Supplement to the Record, but by virtue of that 
modest obstinacy or obstinate modesty which so 
rarely accompanies literary ability, van Dyke has 

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SUPPLEMENT 

successfully withstood all efforts of the Committee 
to obtain the priceless manuscript. 

Landon followed van Dyke and spoke upon 
" The Army." After a number of excellent stories, 
he dwelt upon the spirit of loyalty and union which 
pervades the College Class and the Seventh Regi- 
ment, N. G. S. N. Y. 

John Pitney had no trouble in making a success 
of his toast — " Princeton Spirit," and showed how 
the old pessimistic spirit, only too common in our 
time, had been swept away by the new patriotic 
spirit of the present — a spirit of loyalty to Nassau 
Hall, a spirit of manhood; then everybody sang 
" Old Nassau." 

The last regular speaker, Farr, responded in truly 
paternal spirit for " The Class Boy." According to 
his impartial account the Class Boy is everything 
that he should be — physically, intellectually and 
morally, and his father's chief ambition in life is to 
cultivate in him a sense of responsibility to the 
Class of 1 88 1. 

The Class then had the pleasure of listening to 
three men who had not been back to Princeton 
since they graduated — Hubbard, Myers and Cory. 
Hubbard had gotten up from a sick-bed, and Cory 
had travelled 3,000 miles in order to attend the 
Reunion ; while Myers, who had come all the way 
from Georgia, declared that if there were no other 
way of getting to the next reunion, he would walk. 

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AFTER TWENTY YEARS 

Manierre spoke about Billy Dodd's great work 
as a medical missionary in Cesarea, Asia Minor, 
where he has built and raised the money for a hos- 
pital of 18 beds, at which, according to its last 
report, more than 6,000 cases were treated during 
the year. It was voted that the Secretary transmit 
to Dodd " the greeting of the Class, and their appre- 
ciation of his spirit of energy and self-sacrifice in the 
important work which he is carrying on." 

A short poem by Blydenburgh was then read, the 
last stanza of which runs as follows : 

'' Though years may go, our hearts keep young, 
The ancient spirit keeps its youth, 
Our fellowship arose in truth 

And lasts the changes time has rung ; 
And fast our loving memories keep 
The thoughts of comrades laid to sleep. 

Close up the ranks while shines the sun. 

God bless the Class of 'Eighty-One ! " 

It was further voted that an expression of sym- 
pathy from the Class be sent to Kirk, who was 
reported to be in danger of losing his eyesight. 

The dinner broke up about midnight, and all the 
fellows went back to headquarters, where they spent 
a last delightful evening, or rather morning, talking 
over old times, and finally went off to bed about 

3 A.M. 

Thus ended the Twentieth-Year Reunion of the 

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SUPPLEMENT 

Class of '8i, and the 42 members who had gathered 
from all over the country turned their faces home- 
ward with the conviction that, after all, a man's 
college life and college friends are among the best 
possessions in this world. 

The complete success of the Reunion was due in 
great part to the members of the Committee, who 
gave liberally of their time and money, but to no 
one in a greater degree than to Alex. Hudnut, 
whose careful attention to countless details and 
invaluable assistance in gathering materials for the 
Record deserve the thanks of all his classmates. 
Hudnut made arrangements for the headquarters, 
attended to the dinner, got up the menu cards, and 
did it all at a time when special activity in Wall 
Street was making unusual demands upon his time 
and thought. The Committee, therefore, feels that 
it is not going too far in expressing to him in the 
name of the Class a hearty appreciation of his 
services. 



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The Class Secretary has a little plan which he believes will be of value in keep- 
ing the men in friendly touch with one another; viz., to issue, every couple of 
years or so, a small Bulletin of Class news. In order to make this possible and 
interesting, every member of the class is urged to send, from time to time, 
items, clippings, etc., about himself or any other '8i man, to the Class Secretary, 
who may be depended on to use the material with due discretion. 

The Secretary has accumulated the following items since the Reunion, and 
takes the opportunity of adding them to the foregoing Supplement prepared by 
Moore. 

EDWIN A. DIX. 



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BULLETIN. 

May, 1902, 



MISCELLANEOUS CLASS ITEMS. 



FRANK P. ALLEN. 

Frank was in New York during last summer, on 
some Western mortgage business in connection with 
his law practice. He was unable to come on in 
time to attend the Reunion in June. Hudnut writes 
that Allen looks about the same as always, and is 
doing well. 

W. I. BOYER. 

Boyer's last known address was Belvidere, N. J. 
It has recently been learned that he left Belvidere 
several years ago and went South. Subsequently he 
went out to Mena, Arkansas, where he is now em- 
ployed in a railroad office. 

HENRY G. DUFFIELD. 

Following the death of Mr. E. C. Osborn, Treas- 
urer of Princeton University, Henry was, in Octo- 
ber, 1 90 1, chosen by the Board of Trustees as 
University Treasurer. 

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AFTER TWENTY YEARS 

RICHARD D. HARLAN. 

In September last, Dick became President of 
Lake Forest College, 111. He spends his summers 
in Murray Bay on the St. Lawrence. 

GRiEME HARRISON. 

Harrison's name figured in the New York papers, 
last fall, by reason of a visit of his wife to this 
country and the reported loss of jewels of hers 
valued at ^15,000. It was supposed that they were 
stolen, but this proved not to be the case, and they 
were shortly after found. Mrs. Harrison soon after 
sailed for England to rejoin her husband, accom- 
panied by her two daughters by a former marriage, 
the Misses Marquand. 

R. H. HUTCHINS. 

The address of Hutchins, who is an M.D., is 
West State Street, Sharon, Pa. 

JOHN L. KIRK. 

It will be remembered that at the time of the 
Reunion, John was threatened with the total loss of 
his eyesight, and the Class instructed the Secretary 
to send him its united condolence and sympathy. 
By dint of assiduous care on the part of his wife, and 
of Very skilful treatment, he is now much better, 
and writes that, while he still has to be careful, he can 
use his eyes again, and is " inside the safety line." 

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BULLETIN 
FRANCIS G. LANDON. 

Since the Reunion, Frank has again been elected 
a member of the New York Assembly. 

He has another daughter, Eleanor, born July 28, 
1901. 

CHARLES W. LYNDE. 

Lynde is reported to have forsworn America and 
the Americans. The Record has told of his mar- 
riage, divorce and remarriage, and also of the suit 
brought and won by his first wife to obtain a portion 
of the 1^500,000 inherited by Lynde from his father. 
The decision against him made him bitterly declare 
that there is no justice to be had in the courts of this 
country. He is now reported to have sold his Long 
Island estate at Blue Point, L. I., valued at ^30,000, 
for $7,000, and other property in proportion, and 
he intends to transfer all his interests to England, 
live in Kent, and become a British subject. The 
N. Y. World says that Lynde has doubled his half 
million by speculation and judicious investment. 

GEORGE L. McNUTT. 

McNutt appears to be still carrying on his work- 
ingman and dinner-pail experiences, and has been 
reported in the papers during the winter as deliver- 
ing addresses before the Presbyterian Ministers' As- 
sociation, N. Y. City, and elsewhere, on sociological 
subjects. 

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AFTER TWENTY YEARS 



ROBERT GRIER MONROE. 

Since the New York election last fall, Grier has 
been acting as attorney for the Citizens' Union in 
the prosecution of fraudulent election cases ; and for 
a time it was stated that he was slated to succeed 
Devery as Deputy Commissioner of Police. The 
report started at the time of a dinner given by 
Mayor-elect Low to Col. John N. Partridge, the new 
Police Commissioner ; Jerome, the District-Attorney 
elect ; Robert C. Morris, the President of the Re- 
publican County Committee, and Grier Monroe. 
One of the papers editorially remarked : " Col. 
Monroe is just the type of man that Mr. Low has 
wanted from the start. He is a lawyer and an inde- 
pendent Democrat. Consequently he would be 
well fitted for the trial of policemen, and for the 
various duties which Devery has been ' touchin' on 
an' appertainin' to ' up to the present time." 

Grier was not made Deputy Commissioner, after 
all ; but the incident shows that he is still very much 
alive, and a prominent figure in New York local 
councils. 

J. LEVERETT MOORE. 

Levie reports the birth of a second daughter, Fi- 
delia Leverett Moore, born August 7, 1901. 



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BULLETIN 

CHARLES A. MUNN. 

Munn sailed for Europe on April 30, to be gone 
about two months. He expects to be at the coro- 
nation. 

J. O. H. PITNEY. 

Pitney has formed a law partnership with John R. 
Hardin of '80, at 765 Broad St., Newark, N. J., 
under the firm name of Pitney & Hardin. 

EDWARD RHINE. 

Rhine is in New York City, engaged in the Im- 
porting and manufacturing business. His lines are 
millinery and hat tips, silks, ribbons, etc., and his 
business address is 61 East 9th St., whither he has 
recently removed from 775 Broadway. His home 
is in Mt. Vernon, N. Y. He looks hearty and 
healthy and happy, and seems quite ready to renew 
his interest in Princeton and the Class. 

He was married on June 6, 1895, ^^ Miss Emma 
Florence Patton, at Philadelphia. They have had 
four children : Elinor Florence, born March 29, 
1886; Arthur Edward, born January 16, 1888; 
Percival Robert, born July i, 1891; and Marie 
Louise, born February 11, 1894, died February 20, 

Rhine is a Methodist, and his politics are Repub- 
lican. He has done a little mventmg, in the line of 

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AFTER TWENTY YEARS 

a bicycle improvement, but for the most part has 
devoted himself steadily to his business. 

ADDISON S. RODGERS. 

Rodgers was married on June 27, 1901, to Miss 
Anna Trigg Payne Hargis, daughter of Mr. and 
Mrs, Thomas F. Hargis, at Louisville, Kentucky. 

HENRY S. SCRIBNER. 

Scribner, who is a professor of Greek at the 
Western University of Pennsylvania, Allegheny, is 
to have charge, this summer, of the Greek and Latin 
classes at the summer school of languages at Mar- 
tha's Vineyard. 

CHARLES G. TITSWORTH. 

Titsworth was married on June 4, 1901, at New- 
ark, N. J., to Miss Elizabeth Linen Dawson. Li 
July they sailed for Europe, making an extensive 
trip and being away over two months. 

They have since taken a house at 18 Camp 
Street, Newark, where they have made their home. 

PAUL VAN DYKE. 
Is going abroad this summer. 

THOMAS D. V^ARREN. 

Tommy sailed in January of this year, on the 
Auguste Victoria, for a winter tour of the Mediter- 

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BULLETIN 

ranean, visiting Algiers, Egypt, the Holy Land, 
Turkey, Greece and Italy. The trip occupied 
nearly three months. As an evidence of the deep 
and solemn impression that the storied scenes of the 
Bible made on T. D.'s receptive and awestruck mind, 
the Secretary may be permitted to quote from a let- 
ter received during the trip. Tommy says, with 
simplicity and sincerity : " Jerusalem is a peach, isn't 
It?" 

J. M. WILSON. 

Van Alen went West last summer, and among 
other things made a brief visit to Boulder, CoL 
He writes : 

" I saw Wilson during the last week of July. 
He is preaching in the Boulder Presbyterian Church, 
and was doing good work. He teaches in the State 
University at Boulder, in the department of social 
science. I think he lectures in this course once a 
week. He also figures in the religious life of the 
institution, in chapel exercises and otherwise. He 
was further delivering lectures occasionally at the 
Boulder Chautauqua camp." 



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DIRECTORY 



367 



DIRECTORY 

Judge Frank P. Allen, C.E., 
Lisbon, North Dakota. 

James R. Archer, 

St. James Hotel, Washington, D. C. 

Prof. A. C. Armstrong, Ph.D., 

Wesleyan College, Middletown, Conn. 

William S. Bacot, C.E., 

234 Genesee St., Utica, N. Y. 

Clifton Rodes Barret, 

932 Third Ave., Louisville, Ky. 

Benj. B. Blydenburgh, 

III Broadway, New York City. 

Robert Creighton Bradish, 

51 Greenwich Ave., New York City, or Care 
of Commonwealth Trust Co., Harrisburg, Pa. 

J. S. Brandt, D.D.S., 
Susquehanna, Pa. 

Henry L. Brant, 

38 Park Row, New York City. 

Res., 165 Madison St., Brooklyn, N. Y. 

David C. Breckinridge, 

40 Exchange Place, New York City. 
Res., Gilsey House, " " " 

369 



AFTER TWENTY YEARS 

Stuart Brown, 

309 South 6th St., Springfield, 111. 

Res., 717 S. 4th St., 

Charles Henry Butler, 

135 Broadway, New York City. 

Thomas W. Cauldwell, 

23 Wall St., New York City. 

Res,, 42 Elm St., Morristown, N. J. 

Lewis L. Cory, 
Fresno, Cal. 

WiUiam A. Coursen, Jr., 

U. S. Custom-House, New York City. 
Res., Morristown, N. J. 

John F. Cowan, 

Owsley Block, Butte, Montana. 

Res., 903 Second St., Salt Lake City, Utah. 

James L. Coyle, 

Prud. Ins. Co., 125 W. 42d St., N. Y. City. 

Res., 171 N. 7th St., Newark, N. J. 
Rev. Charles E. Craven, 

Mattituck, Long Island, N. Y. 
Robert Cresswell, Jr., 

1422 Spruce St., Philadelphia, Pa. 
Rev. William A. Darden, 

Petaluma, Cal. 

Frederic M. Davis, 

132 Nassau St., New York City. 

Res., Bloomfield, N. J. 
William C. Davis, 

120 Broadway, New York City. 

Res., 26 West 35th St., New York City. 
370 



DIRECTORY 

Edwin A. Dix, 

123 Harrison St., East Orange, N. J. 

Rev. William S. Dodd, M.D., 

Cesarea, Asia Minor, (via Constantinople,) 
Turkey. 

William A. Dougall, 

213 South 6th St., Newark, N. J. 

Arthur C. Dougherty, M.D., 

158 Washington St., Newark, N. J. 
Henry G. Duffield, 

Princeton, N. J. 
Rev. Charles E. Dunn, 

Freeport, 111. 
Rev. Edwin M. Ellis, 

1016 Billings Ave., Helena, Montana. 
T. H. Powers Farr, 

20 Broad St., New York City. 

Res., West Orange, N. J. 
Pliny Fisk, 

29 Nassau St., New York City. 
Warren J. Flick, C.E., 

Wilkesbarre, Pa. 
Willis Fowler, 

7 Nassau St., New York City. 
Rev. George C. Frost, 

258 Mt. Hope Ave., Rochester, N. Y. 

Capt. Chas. R. Gill, Jr., Surgeon, U. S. Army, 
Care J. M. French, 44 Pine St., N. Y. City. 

Frank Gledhill, 

First Nat'l Bank Bldg., Paterson, N. J. 
Res., 429 Park Ave., " " 

371 



AFTER TWENTY YEARS 

Charles N. Gosman, 

119 Hamilton St., Butte, Montana. 

Jacob Ross Grove, 
York, Pa. 

Rev. Robert Haddow, 

Office of The Westminster, Toronto, Canada. 

Edward P. T. Hammond, 

Dacre House, 5 Arundel St., Strand, W. C, 
London, Kng., or Care Dr. Thos. V. Ham- 
mond, 1713 H St., N. W., Washington, D. C. 

Rev. Richard D. Harlan, 

199 Oxford St., Rochester, N. Y. 

S. Graeme Harrison, 

Kasthorpe House, Ruddington, Notts, Eng. 
Winters, Care English Club, Pau, France. 

Rev. James S. Hillhouse, 

Vicksburg, Miss. 
Joseph D. Hubbard, 

4 Ritchie Place, Chicago, 111. 
Alexander M. Hudnut, 

II Wall St., New York City. 

Res., 51 West 39th St., New York, City. 
R. H. Hutchins, M.D., 

Pittsburg, Pa. 
William Ingham, 

Cor. Pine and Sixteenth Sts., Philadelphia, Pa. 
Philip N. Jackson, 

209 Market St., Newark, N. J. 

Res., 15 Waverly Place, Newark, N. J. 
Prof. Arthur L. Kimball, Ph.D., 

Amherst College, Amherst, Mass. 

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DIRECTORY 

John L. Kirk, 

1 20 Broadway, New York City. 
Res., 82 Grand St., Jersey City, N. J. 

Rev. Edward R. Knowles, LL.D., 
West Sutton, Mass. 

Francis G. Landon, 

" Mansewood," Staatsburg, Dutchess Co., 
N. Y.^ 

Louis J. Lang, 

N. Y. Press Club, 116 Nassau St., N. Y. City. 

Francis Loney, 

West Superior, Mich. 

Zachariah K. Loucks, 

1003 Girard Building, Philadelphia, Pa. 
Res., 1408 Pine St., 

Charles E. Manierre, 

3 1 Nassau St., New York City. 

Res., 352 West End Ave., New York City. 

Henry McAlpin, 

Southern Express Co. Bldg., Savannah, Ga. 

Res., 230 Barnard Street, " " 

Walter L McCoy, 

149 Broadway, New York City. 

Res., South Orange, N. J. 
Alexander McCune, 

412 N. Y. Life Bldg., Minneapolis, Minn. 

Res., 613 East 26th St., " " 

William S. McMurdy, M.D., 

332 West 51st St., New York City. 
Rev. George L. McNutt, 

Care Indianapolis News, Indianapolis, Ind. 

373 



AFTER TWENTY YEARS 

Gilbert W. Minor, 

206 Broadway, New York City. 

Res., 892 Park Place, Brooklyn, N. Y. 

Robert Grier Monroe, 

1 5 Wall Street, New York City. 
University Club, " " 

William J. Montgomery, 

2520 Prytania St., New Orleans, La. 

Prof. J. Leverett Moore, Ph.D., 

Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, N. Y. 

Res., 127 Academy St., Poughkeepsie, N. Y. 

Charles A. Munn, 

361 Broadway, New York City. 
Res., 14E. 22dSt., " 

Samuel H. Myers, 

Montgomery Bldg., Augusta, Ga. 
Res., Summerville, Ga. 

Frank J. Nyce, 

Cambridge, Ohio. 

Julian G. Olds, 

Address Unknown. 

Rev. Francis J. Orr, 

Holland, N. Y. 

Also, 71 Norwood Ave., Buffalo, N. Y. 
Henry M. Payne, 

U. S. Court-House, Washington, D. C. 

Res., 2023 Mass. Ave., " " 

Major John L. Phillips, Surgeon U. S. Army, 

Care Surg.-Gen., Dept. of the Pacific, Manila, 

Philippine Islands, or Care Judge Samuel F. 

Phillips, Washington, D. C. 

374 



DIRECTORY 

John O. H. Pitney, 

765 Broad St., Newark, N. J. 

Res., 123 Madison Ave., Morristown, N. J. 

H. Charles Porter, Ph.D., 

2253 N. 53d St., Wynnefield, Phila., Pa. 

Walter W. Preston, 

Bel Air, Maryland. 

Alexander T. Reid, 

1 1 Wall Street, New York City. 
Res., 28 E. nth St., " " 

Louis D. Ricketts, Sc.D., 

99 John St., New York City. 

Charles Carroll Robbins, 

28-30 Forst-Richey Bldg., Trenton, N. J. 
Res., 263 Hamilton Ave., " " 

Edward G. Roberts, 

16% North High Street, Columbus, Ohio. 
Res., 415 East Broad St., " " 

William H. Roberts, 
Danville, Ky. 

Prof. William A. Robinson, 
Lawrenceville, N. J. 

Walter F. Robinson, M.D., 

Care Princeton Club, New York City. 

Addison S. Rodgers, 

Springfield Gas Engine Co., Springfield, O. 

Frank M. Roseberry, 
LeMars, Iowa. 

George S. Schmidt, 
York, Pa. 

375 



AFTER TWENTY YEARS 

T. B. Schneideman, M.D., 

2725 North Fifth St., Philadelphia, Pa. 

Arthur H. Scribner, 

155 Fifth Avenue, New York City. 
Res., 10 W. 43d St., " 

Prof. Henry S. Scribner, 

Western Univ. of Pa., Allegheny, Pa. 
Res., Ben Avon, Pa. 

Henry C. Selheimer, 

2101 Second Ave., Birmingham, Ala. 
Res., 1430 7th Ave., " " 

John I. Shaw, 

10 South Sixth St., Pittsburg, Pa. 

George M. Sinclair, 

443 North Darien St., Philadelphia, Pa. 
Res., 3929 Walnut St., " " 

John Bonner Skinner, 

26 Montauk Block, Chicago, 111. 
Res., 159 Cass St., " " 

Edward H. Small, M.D., 

Penn and Negley Aves., Pittsburg, Pa. 

Lewis H. Stanton, 

626 Gravier St., New Orleans, La. 

Res., 3923 Carondelet St., New Orleans, La. 

James B. Stokes, 

The Racquet Club, 27 West 43d St., New 
York City. 

Rev. Frank R. Symmes, 
Tennent, N. J. 

376 



DIRECTORY 

Henry C. Thorn, 

Swift & Co., Nat'l Stock Y'ds, St. Clair Co., 111. 
Res., 5014 Morgan Street, St. Louis, Mo. 

Charles Grant Titsworth, 

765 Broad St., Newark, N. J. 

George G. Townsend, C.E., 
Box 275, Frostburg, Md. 

Rev. George L. Van Alen, 

Blackwood, Camden Co., N. J. 

William H. Vanderburgh, 

923 Seventh St., South, Minneapolis, Minn. 

Rev. Paul van Dyke, D.D., 

Princeton, N. J. 

V^illiam T. Vlymen, Ph.D., 

Driggs Ave. and South 3d St., Brooklyn, N. Y. 
Res., Hempstead, Long Island, N. Y. 

Rev. J. Spencer Voorhees, 

37 Hawthorne St., Roslindale, Boston, Mass. 

Henry B. Walsh, 

717 Pioneer Press Bldg., St. Paul, Minn. 
Res., 892 Goodrich Ave., " " 

Henry D. Warren, 

45 West Front Street, Toronto, Canada. 
Res., 95 Wellesley St., 

Thomas D. Warren, 
Mohawk, N. Y. 

A. Pennington Whitehead, 

50 Wall St., New York City. 

Res., 51 East 78th St., New York City. 

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AFTER TWENTY YEARS 

Robert Williams, 

First Nat'l Bank Bldg., Paterson, N. J. 
Res., 21 Church Street, " " 

Rev. David Wills, Jr., 

Grace Church, Oswego, N. Y. 

Rev. James M. Wilson, 

1530 Walnut St., Boulder, Col. 




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